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	John Lomax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Avery Lomax (September 23, 1867 - January 26, 1948) was a pioneering musicologist and folklorist.
		Lomax was born in Goodman, Mississippi and grew up in central Texas, just north of Meridian in rural Bosque County.
		Lomax made an arrangement with the Library whereby it would provide recording equipment (including recording blanks), in exchange for which he would travel the country recording songs to be added to the Archive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Lomax (1544 words)

	Allan Lomax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Lomax made extensive recordings of songs and stories by Woody Guthrie, both for the Library of Congress and for commercial release on RCA Victor as "Dust Bowl Ballads." In 1941, he made the first recordings of McKinley Morganfield, a cotton picker and blues singer better known by his nickname, Muddy Waters.
		Lomax was born in Austin, Tex., in 1915.
		Lomax was displeased by the advent of folk-rock in the mid-1960's, considering it inauthentic.
	users2.ev1.net /~smyth/linernotes/personel/LomaxAllan.htm (2695 words)

	Southern Mosaic: John Avery Lomax (1867-1948)
		John Avery Lomax was born in Goodman, Mississippi, on September 23, 1867, and grew up on the Texas frontier, just north of Meridian in rural Bosque County.
		John A. Lomax, Adventures of a Ballad Hunter (New York: Macmillan Co., 1947), 32.
		John A. Lomax, quoted in the 1933 annual report of the chief of the Division of Music, Carl Engel, in Archive of American Folk Song: A History 1928-1939.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/lohtml/lojohnbio.html (1631 words)

	News-Star OnlineAlan Lomax: The most important musical figure you never heard of 07/21/02
		Lomax was a celebrated musicologist who helped preserve America's and the world's heritage by making thousands of recordings of folk, blues and jazz musicians from the 1930s onward.
		Lomax, who died Friday at 87, was the popularizer of popularizers -- a man who believed the American folk tradition was something to be preserved, passed on to the future in an age when technology and faster-paced lives were threatening to swallow it up.
		Lomax said it boiled down to putting "neglected cultures and silenced people into the communications chain." His subjects still recall, years later, how exciting it was when he played back the recordings he had just made and they heard themselves play.
	www.news-star.com /stories/072102/New_31.shtml (1067 words)

	Variety.com - Lomax works get D.C. home
		Lomax, who initially worked with his father John, was widely credited as the person most responsible for the renewed interest in folk music in the 1950s and 60s.
		John Avery Lomax spent 10 years working with the Library, beginning in June 1933 when he set out with Alan, then 18, on their first folksong gathering expedition for the national archive.
		John Lomax became the honorary consultant and curator of the Library's Archive of American Folk Song, and Alan Lomax became the archive's "assistant in charge" in 1937.
	www.variety.com /index.asp?layout=print_story&articleid=VR1117902235&categoryid=16 (460 words)

	John Lomax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Lomax was born in Mississippi and grew up in central Texas.
		He was long associated with the University of Texas at Austin.
		With his son Alan Lomax, he recorded many folk songs for the Library of Congress.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/j/jo/john_lomax.html (86 words)

	John A. Lomax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Though not widely known, the name Lomax is almost synonymous with American music scholarship, for the accomplishments of John and Alan Lomax in the field of musicology have been instrumental in the documentation and preservation of some of the most important chapters of American Music History.
		The elder of the two Lomaxes, John Avery Lomax, was born on September 23rd of 1867.
		During the breaks from his academic life, John, with his new wife, Bess, could be found around the campfires and saloons of the West, coaxing songs from the cowboys; adding to his collection.
	users2.ev1.net /~smyth/linernotes/personel/LomaxJohn.htm (1893 words)

	lomax site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Assists his father, John Avery Lomax, on their first recording field trip for the Library of Congress.
		Lomax records more than eight hours of Jelly Roll Morton's singing, playing and spoken recollections for the Library of Congress, documenting the birth of jazz by one of its founders.
		Lomax makes a six-month field trip to the West Indies, recording traditional music of English, French, and Spanish speaking Caribbean, as well as recordings of the Hindu community of Trinidad.
	www.alan-lomax.com /about_timeline.html (713 words)

	Search Results for "Lomax"
		Lomax, John Avery, (lo´maks) (KEY), 1867-1948, American folklorist, b.
		Lomax's first book, Cowboy Songs (1910), contained for the first time in print...
		The folklorist John A. Lomax discovered Leadbelly in prison and used his songs for a book, Negro...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Lomax (238 words)

	Southern Mosaic
		John Avery Lomax, born Sept. 23, 1867, in Goodman, Miss., had been collecting songs since his childhood in Bosque County, Texas, jotting down lyrics to cowboy songs as he listened.
		Lomax taught English at Texas AandM University, researched and collected cowboy songs and, with Professor Leonidas Payne of the University of Texas at Austin, co-founded the Texas Folklore Society, a branch of the American Folklore Society.
		John and Ruby Lomax spent five days in Sumter County, Ala., assisted, guided and introduced to performers by their friend Ruby Pickens Tartt, local folklorist and chairman of the WPA Federal Writers' Project of Sumter County.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/9908/lomax.html (2642 words)

	lomax site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		John Lomax enrolls at the University of Texas where, at the age of thirty, he completes his Bachelor’s degree in English literature in two years.
		Lomax is elected president of the American Folk Song Society and travels the country, urging the formation of state folklore societies.
		John A. Lomax marries Ruby Terrill, Associate Professor of Latin and Dean of Women (1925–37) at the University of Texas at Austin.
	www.alan-lomax.com /links_leadbelly.html (2524 words)

	A Guide to the John Avery Lomax Family Papers, 1842, 1953-1986
		Lomax was a collector of North American folk songs, publishing collections of folk songs and serving as curator, Archive of American Folksong, Library of Congress.
		Quotations from the unpublished writings of John A. Lomax, Sr., may be published only with the permission of the majority of his surviving children.
		John Avery Lomax, Jr., and Margaret Marable Lomax:
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/utcah/00013/cah-00013.html (1625 words)

	Library Acquires Alan Lomax Collection
		Lomax believed that folklore and expressive culture are essential to human continuity and adaptation, and his lifelong goal was to create a public platform for their continued use and enjoyment as well as a scientific framework for their further understanding.
		Alan's father, John Avery Lomax, began a 10-year relationship with the Library in June 1933, when he set out with Alan, then 18, on their first folksong gathering expedition under the Library's auspices.
		John Lomax was named "Honorary Consultant and Curator of the Archive of American Folk Song," which had been created in the Library's Music Division in 1928.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/2004/04-047.html (1029 words)

	In Memoriam - Questia Online Library
		John Avery Lomax (1875-1948) was encouraged to collect songs while a student in Harvard by no less a luminary than George Lyman Kittredge.
		Along with conventional paper documentation, the name Lomax continued to be added to many thousands more recordings, made on every new form of recording device, aural and visual, as they appeared, throughout the entire twentieth century.
		John Lomax joined the American Folklife Centre in the Library of Congress in Washington, DC,...
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=5001942462 (223 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: LOMAX, JOHN AVERY
		From 1910 to 1925 Lomax was secretary of the Alumni Association, which became the Ex-Students Association of the University of Texas, except for two years, 1917-19, when he was a bond salesman in Chicago.
		Lomax was one of the founders of the Texas Folklore Society
		Beginning in 1933 Lomax was honorary curator of the Archive of Folksong at the Library of Congress, which he helped establish as the primary agency for preservation of American folksongs and culture.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/LL/flo7.html (634 words)

	Alan Lomax by Ray Allen and Ronald Cohen
		Alan Lomax was born in Austin, Texas, on January 31, 1915, the son of the distinguished folk music collector John Avery Lomax.
		Lomax continued his collecting and media projects, visiting the Caribbean for an extended documentation project in the early 1960s and eventually developing the global jukebox, an interactive, multimedia database for tracking and comparing world folk music and dance styles.
		John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers accompanies Kentucky-born folk singer and collector Jean Ritchie; she coedited Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians with Alan Lomax in 1965.
	www.nyfolklore.org /pubs/voic29-3-4/lomax.html (936 words)

	Lomax, John Avery -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		John Lomax and his son Alan recorded more than 10,000 songs now in the Library of Congress.
		John Lomax began traveling the country to collect songs after receiving a master's degree from Harvard.
		U.S. ethnomusicologist, folklorist, and scholar Alan Lomax was known for the groundbreaking work he did in studying and categorizing the music of African Americans in the Deep South.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9312220 (686 words)

	John Alan Lomax, a Mississippi writer and complier of songs
		John Avery Lomax, a folklorist, was born in Goodman, Mississippi, on September 23, 1867.
		Beginning in 1933 Lomax was honorary curator of the Archive of Folk song at the Library of Congress, which he helped establish as the primary agency for preservation of American folk songs and culture.
		John Lomax spent many years of travel up and down the land seeking the songs Americans sing.
	www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/musicians/JohnLomax/JohnAveryLomax.html (1305 words)

	lomax site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The next year, Lomax was appointed Assistant in Charge of the Archive of American Folk Song; by 1939, in addition to doing graduate work in anthropology at Columbia University, he was producing the first in a series of national radio programs for CBS.
		Lomax intended the database to serve both as a medium for scientific research into human expressive behavior, and as a tool for social science, arts and humanities education.
		Jukebox, he also hoped to further “cultural equity”—a concept created by Lomax call attention to the importance of giving all local cultures, worldwide, a valid forum in the media and in educational curricula, for the meaningful display of their arts and values.
	www.alan-lomax.com /about_bio.html (1152 words)

	Alan Lomax - Author and anthropologist dies on 19 July 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Alan Lomax, author, anthropologist and son of the American folklorist John Avery Lomax, died on 19 July 2002 aged 87.
		With his father, Lomax produced an archive of American folksong, and he also produced a recorded overview of folksong worldwide for Columbia Records.
		Lomax was an advocate of 'cultural equity' - wishing to reverse the trend towards centralisation of communication, giving media time to the whole range of human cultures.
	www.mvdaily.com /news/item.cgi?id=103308 (150 words)

	ISAM Newsletter: Alan Lomax: Citizen Activist
		Folk song collectors like Alan Lomax greatly enriched American music—if not musicians.” Lomax was indeed a fascinating provocateur, a highly influential and sometimes controversial cultural broker whose lifelong commitment to the wedding of people’s music and political activism has yet to be fully understood and appreciated by scholars and pundits.
		Lomax always stressed his radio work and publishing—his role as a musical interpreter, moderator, and promoter for a wider, general public—while his legacy as a field collector has dominated his popular biography.
		Lomax, he does not mean to move America into the city physically, tree by tree or mountain by mountain.
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /isam/cohen1.html (2262 words)

	ALAN LOMAX, 1915-2002
		Lomax, who began recording with his father, John Avery Lomax, in the early '30s, assisted in the first recordings of blues legend Leadbelly.
		Lomax's overwhelming body of work came to include music from Europe and the Caribbean, as well as regional folk music from the United States.
		Alan Lomax will be remembered through the magnificent music he captured and the important lessons he taught Americans about their own culture.
	mixonline.com /mag/audio_alan_lomax/index.html (276 words)

	GRAMMY.com
		Alan Lomax, who passed away on July 19 last year, was born to be a folklorist, having been raised by one of the most prolific and visionary folk music scholar/collectors of the 20th century.
		By 1933, Alan Lomax was working for the Library of Congress, conducting field research for the Archive of American Folk Song.
		In his recent career, before a serious stroke curtailed his work in 1996, Lomax strove to use his scholarship in a global way, making sense of the musics of world cultures as they have developed and impacted people around the globe.
	www.grammy.org /features/2003/0221_lomax.aspx (546 words)

	The Infography about John Lomax (1867-1948)
		Lomax, John A. The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is John Lomax.
		A Guide to the John Avery Lomax Family Papers, 1842, 1953-1986, The Center for American History, Texas Archival Resources Online.
		The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip, Southern Mosiac, Library of Congress.
	www.infography.com /content/360954468306.html (102 words)

	ALA \| Musicologist Alan Lomax Dies at 87
		Alan Lomax, the folk music preservationist and one-time Library of Congress archivist who began recording the songs of the people nearly 70 years ago, died July 19 at the age of 87.
		Lomax began his career in 1933, traveling with his father, John Avery Lomax, a folk-music collector, through back roads of the South looking for people willing to share their music.
		Much of Lomax’s work was done for the Library of Congress, where the Archive of American Folk Song was established in 1928.
	www.ala.org /al_onlineTemplate.cfm?Section=july2002&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=10169 (264 words)

	Lomax, John Avery on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Lomax Meets Professor Kittredge.(the life of folklorist John Avery Lomax)
		The Song Hunter; Alan Lomax was an American original who zealously believed that regular folks' music was better and more honest than the stuff we're fed by the TV and the radio.
		For most of his 87 years, Lomax fought...
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/Lomax-J1o.asp (259 words)

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