Alan Lomax The Man Who Recorded the World

Name: Alan Lomax The Man Who Recorded the World
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ISBN: 9780143120735

ISBN-10: 0143120735

ISBN-13: 9780143120735

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Authors: John Szwed

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The definitive biography of Alan Lomax-from John Szwed,"the best music biographer in the business" (L.A. Weekly). One of the most remarkable figures of the twentieth century, Alan Lomax was best known for bringing legendary musicians like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Muddy Waters, Lead Belly, and Burl Ives to the radio and introducing folk music to a mass audience. Now John Szwed, the acclaimed biographer of Miles Davis and Sun Ra, presents the first biography of Lomax, a man who was as influential as he was controversial-trailed for years by the FBI, criticized for his folk- song-collecting practices, denounced by some as a purist and by others as a popularizer. This authoritative work…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/27/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.46" wide x 8.38" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Introduction



From Chisholm Trail to Harvard Yard



Road Scholars



The Saga of Lead Belly



Travels with Zora Neale Hurston and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle



Honeymoon in Haiti



Doctor Jazz



Bohemian Folklorist



A Bourgeois Town



The People's War



The Century of the Common Man



Living on the Black List



The Grand Tour



Skiffle: From Folk to Pop



The American Campaign Resumed



The Science of Folk Song



To Hear the World in a Grain of Sand



The Culture War



The Global Jukebox: "Got the World in a Jug, the Stopper in My Hand"


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index