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Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax was born in 1915, in
Austin, Texas
, and began is career in the 1930's assisting his father, John Lomax, in collecting recordings for the Library of Congress. He then began his career as a ethnomusicologist, making recordings on his own, capturing the sounds of
America
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Alan Lomax was born in 1915, in
Austin, Texas
, and began is career in the 1930's assisting his father, John Lomax, in collecting recordings for the Library of Congress. He then began his career as a ethnomusicologist, making recordings on his own, capturing the sounds of
America
: prison songs, African-American folk songs, blues, and cowboy songs. By the 1950's, Lomax began traveling to other parts of the world and recorded what he found. In the
United Kingdom
he captured the traditional music of
England
,
Scotland
, and
Ireland
. He also made trips to
Spain
and
Columbia
. In the 1960's, Lomax traveled to the
Caribbean
to do some recording. He would observe how music is incorporated into the culture, what it says about that particular society, and, in turn, how it compares with other musical cultures of the world. In between trips outside of the
US
, Lomax would continue to capture American folk music, sometimes in collaboration with the likes of Pete Seeger. On July 20, 2002, Alan Lomax passed away in Safety Harbor Florida. He was 87 years old.
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