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The Man Who Recorded the World - A Biography of Alan Lomax (Paperback)
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The Man Who Recorded the World - A Biography of Alan Lomax (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 100
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Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record,
radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without
him the history of popular music would have been very different.
Armed with a tape-recorder and his own near-flawless good taste,
Lomax spent years travelling the US, particularly the south,
recording its heritage of music and song for posterity, bringing to
light the talents of performers ranging from Jelly Roll Morton to
Leadbelly and Muddy Waters, and crucially influencing generations
of musicians from Pete Seeger to the Stones, from Woody Guthrie to
Bob Dylan. His influence continues: recordings made by Lomax are
the core of the sound-tracks of Oh Brother, Where art Thou? and
Gangs of New York, and even featured, remixed, on Moby's Play. John
Szwed's biography is the first ever of this remarkable and
contradictory man (whom he both knew and worked with for ten
years); through it Szwed will tell the story of a musical and
political era, as he did so successfully in his previous book on
Miles Davis.
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