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Alan Lomax
Austin, Texas, USA
Alan Lomax was an American field collector of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a folklorist, ethnomusicologist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral his…
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Alan Lomax was an American field collector of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a folklorist, ethnomusicologist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the US and in England, which played an important role in both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. He collected material first with his father, folklorist and collector John A. Lomax, and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song, of which he was the director, at the Library of Congress on aluminium and acetate discs.
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2012
Ballads, Blues & Bluegrass
Movie Self
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2006
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
Movie Archival Footage
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2004
Lomax the Songhunter
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1996
Devil Got My Woman: Blues at Newport 1966
Movie Producer
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1991
Appalachian Journey
Movie Narrator
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1991
Cajun Country
Movie Director
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1991
Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old
Movie Director
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1990
American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America
TV show Self - Host
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1990
Jazz Parades: Feet Don't Fail Me Now
Movie Director
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1990
The Ballad of Ewan MacColl
Movie Self
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1988
BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie
Movie Self
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1979
The Land Where the Blues Began
Movie Writer
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1977
Step Style
Movie Director
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1976
Dana Can Deal
Movie Sound Recordist
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1974
Dance and Human History
Movie Director
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1959
Green Mansions
Movie Thanks
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1953
Oss Oss Wee Oss
Movie Director
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1947
To Hear Your Banjo Play
Movie Writer
