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Alan Lomax, the South, and the American Folk Music Revival, 1933-1969 (Hardcover, New edition)
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Alan Lomax, the South, and the American Folk Music Revival, 1933-1969 (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: American Culture, 16
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Alan Lomax (1915-2002) is arguably the most popular and influential
American folk song collector of the 20th century. Pursuing a
mission of both preserving and popularizing folk music, Lomax moved
between political activism, the scholarly world, and the world of
popular culture. Based largely on primary material, the book shows
how Lomax's diverse activities made him an authority in the field
of folk music and how he used this power to advocate the cultures
of perceived marginalized Americans - whom he located primarily in
the American South. In this approach, however, folk music became an
abstract idea onto which notions oscillating between hope and
disillusionment, fear and perspective were projected. The author
argues that Lomax's role as a cultural mediator, with a politically
motivated approach, helped him to decisively shape the perception
and reception of what came to be known as American folk music, from
the mid 1930s to the late 1960s.
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