Known For
Directing
Born
Jan 31, 1915
Died
Jul 19, 2002
Place of Birth
Austin, Texas, USA
Credits
18 titles
Alan Lomax
Biography
Alan Lomax was an American field collector of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a folklorist, ethnomusicologist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the US and in England, which played an important role in both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. He collected material first with his father, folklorist and collector John A. Lomax, and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song, of which he was the director, at the Library of Congress on aluminium and acetate discs.
Known For
Filmography
Ballads, Blues & Bluegrass
Self
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
Archival Footage
Lomax the Songhunter
Self (archive footage)
Devil Got My Woman: Blues at Newport 1966
Producer
Appalachian Journey
Narrator
Cajun Country
Director
Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old
Director
American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America
Self - Host
Jazz Parades: Feet Don't Fail Me Now
Director
The Ballad of Ewan MacColl
Self
BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie
Self
The Land Where the Blues Began
Producer
Step Style
Director
Dana Can Deal
Sound Recordist
Dance and Human History
Director
Green Mansions
Thanks
Oss Oss Wee Oss
Director
To Hear Your Banjo Play
Writer