Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Alan Lomax



One of the most innovative and prominent figures in music throughout the 1930s was Alan Lomax. He was an ethnomusicologist and folklorist. Lomax recorded thousands of field recordings, with a focus of prisoners and the black community. Not only this, but he was a pioneering oral historian, he recorded detrimental interviews with memorable folk musicians.

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