Lomax, Alan 1915-2002

The folk songs of North America : in the English language by Alan Lomax( )

25 editions published between 1960 and 1975 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,275 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Collection of 317 songs, including favorites such as John Henry, Shenandoah, Barbry Allen, Sweet Betsy, and the Old Chisholm trail, as well as lesser known, authentic chanteys, ballads, work songs, and spirituals; each with brief background note

The land where the blues began by Alan Lomax( Book )

60 editions published between 1982 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 2,208 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The bluesmen were the bards of America's last frontier, the rowdy Mississippi Delta, in the days of the cotton boom, of levee and railroad building. Alan Lomax takes us on an adventure into the "bad old days" of the Delta. Weaving together the tales of muleskinners and roustabouts, church matrons and convicts, children and blind street singers, Lomax gives us the rich, sorrow-ridden background of the blues. We meet Muddy Waters (the father of modern blues), learn how Robert Johnson met his end, and are introduced to Fred McDowell and Son House, who taught Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton how to play the blues. In pre-integration days, when Lomax, a Southerner, first began his research, custom forbade a white man to socialize or even shake hands with a black. Despite threats of jail and violence, Lomax broke through the veil of silence that up till the 1940s had concealed the life of blacks in the Deep South. For the first time the people in these lower depths told the story of their humiliation and exploitation - of the brutal work camps that wasted lives and of the monstrous state penitentiaries that devoured the rebellious. No blacks before them had dared to expose the cruelties of the post-Reconstruction Deep South, the time of broken promises and illegal repression. In 1941, Blind Sid Hemphill, drum major of the Hills, introduced Lomax to the African roots of the Mississippi music, whose performance style (in song, speech, music, dance) has survived virtually intact in American black folk communities. This powerful, joy-filled, nonverbal and oral tradition gave rise to spirituals, jazz, dance steps, humor, and other folkways that kept the hearts of blacks alive all through their time of travail. It is this river of African-American culture - swept along in a tide of bawdy tales, murder ballads, work songs, hollers, game songs, church shouts - that produced the blues, which now enchant the world

American ballads and folk songs by John A Lomax( )

24 editions published between 1934 and 1994 in English and held by 2,036 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Discover the diversity, spontaneity, free-flowing melody and sheer invention of scores of songs sung by cowboys and convicts, lumberjacks, hobos, miners, plantation slaves, and more

3000 years of black poetry : an anthology by Alan Lomax( Book )

17 editions published between 1970 and 1984 in English and held by 1,737 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Includes roots of black poetry in Africa, from primitive song, and extends to Egypt, Latin America, the West Indies, and the rural and urban streets of our country. The poetry of black Africa speaks directly to us over time and distance

Cowboy songs and other frontier ballads by John A Lomax( Book )

31 editions published between 1938 and 1986 in English and held by 1,420 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A groundbreaking collection of cowboy songs includes melodies and lyrics for hundreds of ballads of the American West, along with notes on their origins

Folk song: U.S.A. : the 111 best American ballads by John A Lomax( )

31 editions published between 1947 and 1975 in 3 languages and held by 1,137 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Folk song style and culture by Alan Lomax( Book )

27 editions published between 1968 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,082 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hard hitting songs for hard-hit people : [American folk songs of the Depression and the labor movement of the 1930's] by Alan Lomax( )

16 editions published between 1967 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 811 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Our singing country : a second volume of American ballads and folk songs by John A Lomax( )

5 editions published between 1941 and 2007 in English and held by 588 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

American ballads and folk songs by John A Lomax( Book )

42 editions published between 1924 and 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 586 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Ten Thousand Miles from Home, Shack Bully Holler, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Bad Man Ballad, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Bear in the Hill, Shortenin' Bread, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more