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Alan Lomax

The Man Who Recorded the World

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Alan Lomax

Auteur(s): John Szwed
Narrateur(s): Scott Sowers
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 The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science of songFolklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who introduced folk music to the masses. Lomax began his career making field recordings of rural music for the Library of Congress and by the late 1930s brought his discoveries to radio, including Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Burl Ives. By the 1940s he was producing concerts that brought white and black performers together, and in the 1950s he set out to record the whole world.Lomax was also a controversial figure. When he worked for the U. S. government he was tracked by the FBI, and when he worked in Britain, MI5 continued the surveillance. In his last years he turned to digital media and developed technology that anticipated today's breakthroughs. Featuring a cast of characters including Eleanor Roosevelt, Leadbelly, Carl Sandburg, Carl Sagan, Jelly Roll Morton, Muddy Waters, and Bob Dylan, Szwed's fascinating biography memorably captures Lomax and provides a definitive account of an era as seen through the life of one extraordinary man. Divertissement et célébrités Histoire Musique Célébrité Biographie Afrique Royaume-Uni Justice sociale Amérique Latine
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I would gladly have listened to 40 hours of this man's life, 100 if more songs were incorporated!

Lomax was a rare man whose unmatched drive and innovation were finely balanced by a strict sense of morality and fairness when it came to his ethnographic pursuits. his personal life was another matter.

A few of the dialects/accents were cringe-worthy. For the vast majority of the listening experience though, I was very impressed by the reader

deeply satisfying

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loved it. the narrator was amazing and the story is really incredible too. He does a great job embodying accents of characters in the book. Can't believe this book isn't more popular.

great book and narrator's

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