Research topic: John Avery Lomax

John Avery Lomax , 1867-1948, American folklorist, b. Goodman, Miss. Lomax's first book, Cowboy Songs (1910), contained for the first time in print such songs as "The Old Chisholm Trail," "Git Along Home Little Dogies," and "Home on the Range." Collecting and recording songs in Southern penitentiaries, he discovered Leadbelly , who provided the material for his Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly (1936), which he compiled with his son, Alan Lomax, 1915-2002, b. Austin, Tex. In addition to the Leadbelly collection, father and son collaborated in compiling American... Read more