Lomax in London: Alan Lomax, the BBC and the Folk-Song Revival in England, 1950-1958 From: Folk Music Journal | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Gregory, E David | Copyright English Folk Dance and Song Society 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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Pete Seeger once described Alan Lomax as 'the most important single figure' in the world of folk music, and a standard reference work has called him 'America's most eminent folk song collector and scholar'.1 If Lomax's later academic work in comparative ethnomusicology has proven controversial, few would deny the immense contribution he made to the study of American traditional music between 1933 and 1949, through his wide-ranging activity as a field-collector, editor, arc...

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