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Books by Alan Lomax
  | | The Land Where the Blues Began(Updated) by Alan Lomax Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 2002 by The New Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56584-739-2, ISBN: 1-56584-739-3 "A self-described "song-hunter," the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930's and '40s, armed with primitive recording equipment and a keen love of the Delta's music heritage. Crisscrossing the towns and hamlets where the blues began, Lomax gave voice to such greats as Leadbelly, Fred MacDowell, Muddy Waters, and many others, all of whom made their debut recordings with him. "The Land Where the Blues Began" is L ..." |
 | | Hendrix, Setting the Record Straight(Reprint) by Alan Lomax Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 1995 by Delta ISBN-13: 978-0-385-31285-1, ISBN: 0-385-31285-7 "Set in an era as harsh and fertile as Delta silt, The Land Where the Blues Began reveals how the river of African-American culture overtook its repressive banks--to give us R & B, soul, rock 'n' roll, and the only purely American art form, the blues. Alan Lomax takes us on an adventure into the "bad old days" of the post-slavery, Jim Crow Mississippi Delta--the birthplace of the blues--when railroads and levees were being built and cott ..." |
 | | American Ballads and Folk Songs(1st Edition) (Dover Books on Music) by Alan Lomax, John Avery Lomax Paperback, 672 Pages, Published 1994 by Dover Publications Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-486-28276-3, ISBN: 0-486-28276-7 ""A book to cherish permanently." — The New York Times.With this ample collection of authentic ballads and songs, you can immerse yourself in the rich tradition and heritage of American folk music. Discover the diversity, spontaneity, free-flowing melody, and sheer invention of scores of songs sung by cowboys and convicts, lumberjacks, hobos, miners, plantation slaves, mountaineers, soldiers, and many others.One of the remarkable feature ..." |
 | | Mister Jelly Roll(Reprint) The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and 'Inventor of Jazz' by Alan Lomax Paperback, 420 Pages, Published 1993 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-679-74064-3, ISBN: 0-679-74064-3 "Traces the jazz musician's career journey from Storyville to Broadway, showing the ways in which his unique compositions reflected the problems of America's poor" |
 | | Our Singing Country(Unabridged) Folk Songs and Ballads (Dover Books on Music) by Alan Lomax, John A. Lomax, John Avery Lomax, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Harold William Thompson, Judith Tick Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2000 by Dover Publications Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-486-41089-0, ISBN: 0-486-41089-7 "In the 1930s and 40s, a father-and-son team of folklorists hit the highways, byways and rural routes of the United States, traveling in a battered pickup truck laden with primitive recording equipment. John A. Lomax and his son, Alan, covered thousands of miles, stopping off at tarpaper shacks, juke joints, prison yards, and other out-of-the-way places to listen to native singers and to record them for the Library of Congress archives. ..." |
 | | Parchman Farm Photographs and Field Recordings: 1947-1959 by Alan Lomax, Bruce Jackson, Anna Wood, Anna Lomax Wood, Multi-Artistes Hardcover, 124 Pages, Published 2015 by Dust-To-Digital Box Set, Live ISBN-13: 978-0-9817342-9-3, ISBN: 0-9817342-9-4 | 1. Murderer's Home - Jimpson And Group 2. Rosie - 88 And Group 3. It Makes A Long Time Man Feel Bad - 22 And Group 4. Whoa Buck - 88 5. When I Went To Leland - Tangle Eye, Hard Hat, 22, And Little Red 6. I'm Going To Memphis - Buzzard And Group 7. The Prettiest Train I Ever Saw - 22 And Group 8. John Henry - 22 And Group 9. John Old Alabama - Dan Barnes And Group 10. Hollers - Foots 11. Stewball - Dobie Red And Group 12. Levee Camp Hollers - Bama 13. Early In The Morning - Tangle Eye, Hard Hat, 22 And Little Red 14. I Got A Bulldog (Well I Wonder) - Dobie Red And Group 15. Dollar Mamie - 22 And Group 16. Stackalee - Bama 17. I Don't Want No Jet Black Woman - Dan Barnes And Group 18. Did You Hear About Louella Wallace - Bull, Foots And Dobie Red 19. Tangle Eye's Blues - Tangle Eye 20. Rosie - 22 And Group 21. I'm Going Home - Bama 22. No More My Lord - Jimpson And Group | 23. The Weather Get Warm - Unidentified Group 1. Lucky Song - Floyd Batts 2. Disability Boogie Woogie - Clarence Alexander 3. Berta - John Edwards And Group 4. Poor Lazarus - Clyde Jones And Group 5. Cool Drink Of Water Blues - John Dudley 6. Levee Camp Holler / Interview - Ed Lewis 7. Black Gal - Ed Lewis And Group 8. I Don't Want You Baby - Bama 9. Rosie - Grover Wells And Group 10. Hollers - Bridges Lee Cole 11. You Got A Mean Disposition - John Dudley 12. Big Road Blues - John Dudley 13. I'm Going Home - Ervin Webb And Group 14. Berta - George Golden And Group 15. Up The River - Grover Wells 16. Prison Blues - Clarence Alexander 17. Tom Devil - Johnny Lee Moore, Ed Lewis, James Carter And Henry Mason 18. My Jack Don't Drink No Water - Willie Washington 19. Sometimes I Wonder - Leroy Cambell And Yancey 20. Look For Me In Louisiana - Henry Ratcliff 21. Ain't Been Able To Get Home No More - Heuston Earms "(2014/Dust To Digital) 44 tracks.44 enregistrements audio, 12 inédits, tout nouvellement remasterisé; 77 photographies, la plupart publiés ici pour la première fois; Essais de Alan Lomax, Anna Lomax bois, et Bruce Jackson. Produit par Steven Lance Ledbetter, fondateur de poussière-numérique, et Nathan Salsburg, commissaire de l'Lomax Archive Alan. En 1947, '48 et '59, folkloriste de renom Alan Lomax est allé derrière les barbelés dans l ..." |
 | | Mister Jelly Roll(1st Edition) The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz" by Alan Lomax, Lawrence Gushee, Chris Berry Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22530-5, ISBN: 0-520-22530-9 "When it appeared in 1950, this biography of Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton became an instant classic of jazz literature. Now back in print and updated with a new afterword by Lawrence Gushee, Mister Jelly Roll will enchant a new generation of readers with the fascinating story of one of the world's most influential composers of jazz. Jelly Roll's voice spins out his life in something close to song, each sentence rich with the sound and a ..." |
 | | Land Where the Blues Began, The(1st Edition) by Alan Lomax Hardcover, 539 Pages, Published 1993 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-679-40424-8, ISBN: 0-679-40424-4 "Co-founder--with folklorist father John A. Lomax--of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, Alan Lomax traveled the South "from the Brazos bottoms of Texas to the tidewater country of Virginia" in search of the wellspring of American blues. Previously the author of Mister Jelly Roll, Lomax stalks the ghosts of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy and Charlie Patton, among many other blues pioneers. This ..." |
 | | The Leadbelly Songbook(1st Edition) The Ballads, Blues, and Folksongs of Huddie Ledbetter by Moses Asch, Alan Lomax Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1992 by Oak Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-8256-0042-5, ISBN: 0-8256-0042-1 "More than 70 songs by Huddie Ledbetter, with chord names and musical transcriptions by Jerry Silverman and biographical notes by Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Fred Ramsey, and Charles Smith. Includes: Midnite Special * Backwater Blues * John Henry * House of the Rising Sun * and more." |
 | | Folk Song Style and Culture(1st Edition) by Alan Lomax Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1978 by Transaction Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-87855-640-3, ISBN: 0-87855-640-0 " Song and dance style--viewed as nonverbal communications about culture--are here related to social structure and cultural history. Patterns of performance, theme, text and movement are analyzed in large samples of films an recordings from the whole range of human culture, according to the methods explained in this volume. Cantometrics, which means song as a measure of man, finds that traditions of singing trace the main historic distri ..." |
 | | Folk Song Style and Culture(1st Edition) by Alan Lomax Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-52362-3, ISBN: 1-138-52362-3 "Song and dance style--viewed as nonverbal communications about culture--are here related to social structure and cultural history. Patterns of performance, theme, text and movement are analyzed in large samples of films an recordings from the whole range of human culture, according to the methods explained in this volume. Cantometrics, which means song as a measure of man, finds that traditions of singing trace the main historic distrib ..." |
 | | The Folk Songs of North America(1st Edition) in the English Language by Alan Lomax, Shirley Collins, Michael Leonard, Peggy Seeger, Matyas Seiber, Don Banks Paperback, 624 Pages, Published 1975 by Dolphin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-385-03772-3, ISBN: 0-385-03772-4 "After more than 25 years of intensive research and in the filed collecting, Alan Lomax, the most widely recognized authority on folk songs in the world, assembled over 300 songs in this book which the New York Times called "the fullest, most representative and best edited popular anthology of American folk songs so far compiled". Besides being a collection of memorable songs, THE FOLK SONGS OF NORTH AMERICA, IS ALSO AN AUTHORITATIVE AND ..." |
 | | Mister Jelly Roll(Updated) by Alan Lomax, Kingsley Amis Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1991 by Virgin Books Import ISBN-13: 978-0-86369-318-2, ISBN: 0-86369-318-0 "Biography of the jazz pioneer, Jelly Roll Morton-"New Orleans creole and 'inventor of jazz."" |
 | | Brown Girl in the Ring(1st Edition) An Anthology of Song Games from the Eastern Caribbean by Bess Lomax Hawes, Alan Lomax, Jacob Delworth Elder, J.D. Edler Hardcover, 220 Pages, Published 1997 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-679-40453-8, ISBN: 0-679-40453-8 "Award-winning author Alan Lomax has dedicated his life to recording the music of cultures that are largely ignored, thereby preserving forever a magnificent musical heritage. In the words of Studs Terkel, Lomax is "one of America's most imaginative and daring musicologists." Together with J. D. Elder, a former minister of culture of Trinidad and Tobago, and his sister Bess Lomax Hawes, Lomax collects here sixty-eight children's song gam ..." |
 | | Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People(Reprint) by Nora Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, Alan Lomax, Irwin Silber Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2012 by Bison Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-4475-7, ISBN: 0-8032-4475-4 "Twenty-seven years in the making (1940-67), this tapestry of nearly two hundred American popular and protest songs was created by three giants of performance and musical research: Alan Lomax, indefatigable collector and preserver; Woody Guthrie, performer and prolific balladeer; and Pete Seeger, entertainer and educator who has introduced three generations of Americans to their musical heritage. In his afterword, Pete Seeger recounts t ..." |
 | | American folk song and folklore by Alan Lomax, Sidney Robertson Cowell Published 1977 by Scholarly Press ISBN-13: 978-0-403-01615-0, ISBN: 0-403-01615-0 |
 | | Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John A. Lomax, Alan Lomax Paperback, Published 1986 by Schirmer Reference ISBN-13: 978-0-02-061260-5, ISBN: 0-02-061260-5 "Gathers lyrics and music for hundreds of folksongs from the American frontier" |
 | | Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People(Illustrated) by Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Alan Lomax, John Steinbeck Paperback, 373 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-7991-9, ISBN: 0-8032-7991-4 "Twenty-seven years in the making (1940–67), this tapestry of nearly two hundred American popular and protest songs was created by three giants of performance and musical research—Alan Lomax, indefatigable collector and preserver; Woody Guthrie, performer and prolific balladeer; and Pete Seeger, entertainer and educator of three generations of Americans to their musical heritage. In his new afterword, seventy-nine-year-old Pete Seeger re ..." |
 | | 3000 years of black poetry an anthology by Alan Lomax, Raoul Abdul Hardcover, Published 1970 by Dodd Mead ISBN-13: 978-0-396-06171-7, ISBN: 0-396-06171-0 |
 | | Alan Lomax Selected Writings, 1934-1997 by Ronald D. Cohen, Alan Lomax Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2005 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-93855-6, ISBN: 0-415-93855-4 "Alan Lomax is a legendary figure in American folk music circles. Although he published many books, hundreds of recordings and dozens of films, his contributions to popular and academic journals have never been collected. This collection of writings, introduced by Lomax's daughter Anna, reintroduces these essential writings. Drawing on the Lomax Archives in New York, this book brings together articles from the 30s onwards. It is divided ..." |
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