|
|
Product Description
The definitive biography of Alan Lomax-from John Szwed,"the best music biographer in the business" (L.A. Weekly).One of the most remarkable figures of the twentieth century, Alan Lomax was best known for bringing legendary musicians like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Muddy Waters, Lead Belly, and Burl Ives to the radio and introducing folk music to a mass audience. Now John Szwed, the acclaimed biographer of Miles Davis and Sun Ra, presents the first biography of Lomax, a man who was as influential as he was controversial-trailed for years by the FBI, criticized for his folk- song-collecting practices, denounced by some as a purist and by others as a popularizer. This authoritative work reveals how Lomax changed not only the way everyone in the country heard music but also the way they viewed America itself.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- The Land Where the Blues Began
- Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
- Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
- Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues
- The History of Jazz
- Adventures of a Ballad Hunter (Focus on American History Series)
- The Southern Journey of Alan Lomax: Words, Photographs, and Music
- American Ballads and Folk Songs (Dover Books on Music)
- Land Where the Blues Began, The
- A Treasury Of Library Of Congress Field Rcdgs.
*If this is not the "Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link
.
Details were last updated on Nov 19, 2024 19:54 +08.
