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Alan Lomax Collection
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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 whic
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Cajun And Creole Music
The Spanish Recordings: Galicia
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Negro Prison Blues & Songs
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Cajun and Creole Music (vol 1)
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Alan Lomax Collection - Black Appalachia
Folk Songs of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales: 1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh
The Spanish Recordings: Mallorca: The Balearic Islands
The Spanish Recordings: Ibiza & Formentera: The Pityusic Islands
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Prison Songs V. 2: Don'tcha Hear Poor Mother Calling?
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Alan Lomax Collection - Negro Work Songs
Italian Treasury: Piemonte and Valle D'Aosta
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Singing In The Streets: Scottish Childrens Songs