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Biographie de l'artiste pour Alan Lomax Collection

Alan Lomax January 31 1915 – July 19 2002 Was An American Folklorist And Ethnomusicologist. He Was One Of The Great Field Collectors Of Folk Music Of The 20th Century Recording Thousands Of Songs In The United States Great Britain Ireland The Caribbean Italy And Spain. The Lomax Collection Is Now Available Online At Http //culturalequity.Org Lomax Was The Son Of Pioneering Folklorist And Author John Lomax With Whom He Started His Career By Recording Songs Sung By Sharecroppers And Prisoners In Texas Louisiana And Mississippi. Because Of Frail Health He Was Mostly Home Schooled But Attended The Choate School Now Choate Rosemary Hall For A Year Graduating In 1930 At Age 15. He Enrolled At The University Of Texas At Austin In 1930 And The Following Year Studied Philosophy At Harvard But Upon His Mother's Death Interrupted His Education To Console His Father And Join Him On His Folk Song Collecting Field Trips. He Subsequently Earned A Degree In Philosophy From The University Of Texas And Later Did Graduate Studies With Melville J. Herskovits At Columbia University And With Ray Birdwhistell At The University Of Pennsylvania. To Some He Is Best Known For His Theories Of Cantometrics Choreometrics And Parlametrics Elaborated From 1960 Until His Death With The Help Of Collaborators Victor Grauer Conrad Arensberg Forrestine Paulay And Roswell Rudd.
From 1937 To 1942 Lomax Was Assistant In Charge Of The Archive Of Folk Song Of The Library Of Congress To Which He And His Father And Numerous Collaborators Contributed More Than Ten Thousand Field Recordings. During His Lifetime He Collected Folk Music From The United States Haiti The Caribbean Ireland Great Britain Spain And Italy Assembling A Treasure Trove Of American And International Culture. A Pioneering Oral Historian He Also Recorded Substantial Interviews With Many Legendary Folk Musicians Including Woody Guthrie Lead Belly Muddy Waters Jelly Roll Morton Irish Singer Margaret Barry Scots Ballad Singer Jeannie Robertson And Harry Cox Of Norfolk England Among Many Others. After The Bombing Of Pearl Harbor He Took His Recording Machine Into The Streets To Capture The Reactions Of Everyday Citizens. While Serving In The Army In World War II He Made Numerous Radio Programs In Connection With The War Effort. The 1944 "ballad Opera" The Martins And The Coys Broadcast In Britain But Not The USA By The BBC Featuring Burl Ives Woody Guthrie Will Geer Sonny Terry Pete Seeger And Fiddlin' Arthur Smith Among Others Was Released On Rounder Records In 2000. He Also Produced Recordings Concerts And Radio Shows In The U.S And In England Which Played An Important Role In Both The American And British Folk Revivals Of The 1940s '50s And Early '60s. In The Late 1940s He Produced A Highly Regarded Series Of Folk Music Albums For Decca Records And Organized A Series Of Concerts At New York's Town Hall And Carnegie Hall Featuring Blues Calypso And Flamenco Music. He Also Hosted A Radio Show Your Ballad Man From 1945-49 That Was Broadcast Nationwide On The Mutual Radio Network And Featured A Highly Eclectic Program From Gamelan Music To Django Reinhardt To Klezmer Music To Sidney Bechet And Wild Bill Davison To Jazzy Pop Songs By Maxine Sullivan And Jo Stafford To Readings Of The Poetry Of Carl Sandburg To Hillbilly Music With Electric Guitars To Finnish Brass Bands – To Name A Few. Alan Lomax Received The National Medal Of Arts From President Reagan In 1986 A Library Of Congress Living Legend Award In 2000 And Was Awarded An Honorary Doctorate In Philosophy From Tulane University In 2001. He Won The National Book Critics Circle Award And The Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award In 1993 For His Book The Land Where The Blues Began Connecting The Story Of The Origins Of Blues Music With The Prevalence Of Forced Labor In The Pre-World War II South Especially On The Mississippi Levees . Lomax Also Received A Posthumous Grammy Trustees Award For His Lifetime Achievements In 2003. Jelly Roll Morton The Complete Library Of Congress Recordings By Alan Lomax Rounder Records 8 CDs Boxed Set Won In Two Categories At The 48th Annual Grammy Awards Ceremony Held On Feb 8 2006. The Box Set Alan Lomax In Haiti Recordings For The Library Of Congress 1936–1937 On Harte Records Featuring 10 CDs Of Recorded Music And Film Footage Shot By Elizabeth Lomax A Bound Book Of Lomax's Letters And Field Journals And Notes By Musicologist Gage Avrill Was Nominated For Two Grammy Awards In 2011.

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