Latest Release
- 15 MAR 2024
- 66 Songs
- Traditional Music & Songs of Italy · 1999
- Traditional Music & Songs of Italy · 1999
- The Spanish Recordings: Mallorca: The Balearic Islands · 2007
- Authentic Israeli Folk Songs and Dances · 1965
- Authentic Israeli Folk Songs and Dances · 1965
- Authentic Israeli Folk Songs and Dances · 1965
- Authentic Israeli Folk Songs and Dances · 1965
- I'll Be So Glad When the Sun Goes Down: Alan Lomax’s "Southern Journey," 1959–1960 · 2011
- Authentic Israeli Folk Songs and Dances · 1965
- Traditional Music & Songs of Italy · 1999
- 2020
About Alan Lomax
Ethnomusicologist and archivist Alan Lomax's contribution to the preservation and continued flourishing of American folk music is inestimable. Lomax traveled through the American South in the 1940s with a mobile recording unit in order to capture firsthand the rich tapestry of the nation's non-commercial music. The massive amount of music Lomax collected for the Library of Congress is a Rosetta Stone of American roots forms, featuring work and prison songs, raw gospel, Delta blues, string bands, yodels, sacred harp, and rustic country, among myriad other sounds. Although Lomax's areas of discovery were not limited to just the United States, his legacy will forever be synonymous with American music.
- HOMETOWN
- Austin, TX, United States
- BORN
- 31 January 1915
- GENRE
- Worldwide