02512cgm a22004093i 4500 22858934 20250607115840.6 cr ||a|||||||| 220930s2010 dcu||| | fo vleng 22858934 0 ibc orignew u ncip 20 y-gencatlg 2021688447 (DLC)ihas.200196504 4903 DLC eng DLC Alan Lomax, the Man Who Recorded the World: A Bio-Ethnography. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2010-05-05. 1 online resource two-dimensional moving image tdi rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Benjamin Botkin Lecture Series Classification: Music and Books on Music. John Szwed. Recorded on 2010-05-05. In this presentation, John Szwed discusses his forthcoming biography of Alan Lomax. He writes: It seems odd that no biography of Alan Lomax was written before now, especially given that many of the folk music performers whom Lomax discovered have had biographies of their own. True, Lomax was not a well known performer like Pete Seeger. He never held an academic post or a high government position, nor did he receive international or even national awards for his work until the very end of his life. But he was arguably one of the most influential Americans of the twentieth century, a man who changed how everyone heard music and even how they viewed America. When he died, newspaper and TV news reporters pointed out that he had been a musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, photographer, author of 19 books, producer of dozens of radio, TV, video, and concert programs and hundreds of recordings, in addition to being the world's most famous folklorist. They might have added that he was also an anthropologist, political activist, lobbyist, and in his later years, something of a social theorist in the grand tradition of the nineteenth century. Kids, Families. Researchers. Biography, History. Culture, Folklife. Culture, Performing Arts. Performing Arts, Music. Library of Congress. Event video gdcwebcasts 100505afc1200 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcwebcasts.100505afc1200 botkin_folklife_lecture gdc/webcasts s-Online Electronic Resource