Alan Lomax: Popular Songbook
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The late Alan Lomax, like his father John A. Lomax before him, was one of America’s most influential and tireless scholars and chroniclers of folk and ethnic music. Yet Lomax also enthusiastically embraced rock n’ roll as it became a powerful cultural force in the 1950s. He also had a life-long fascination with the evolution of music performances and how particular songs were adapted from one style or era to the next. This intriguing 22-song collection was culled from the hundreds of grassroots recordings that Lomax, who died in 2002 at 87, collected from the early 1930s, onward. The common thread is that they have all found
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Manufacturer: Rounder Select
Release date: 26 August 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0682161186320 UPC: 008216118632
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Release date: 26 August 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0682161186320 UPC: 008216118632
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