Obituary Alan Lomax

From: The Scotsman | Date: July 22, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Alan Lomax, folk music collector and anthropologist

Born: 31 January, 1915, in Austin, Texas Died: 19 July, 2002, in Sarasota, Florida, aged 87

ALAN Lomax became the 20th century's most famous collector of folk songs and folkloric material in the course of a life devoted to a fervent opposition to the homogenising forces of commercialisation. He once said that he believed in a principle of "cultural equity", in which every culture was entitled "to have equal time on the air and equal time in the classroom".

Although he disapproved of Bob Dylan's turn to rock music in the mid-Sixties, Dylan ...

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