Alan Lomax : the man who recorded the world / by Szwed, John F., 1936-

Table of Contents: “…From Chisholm Trail to Harvard Yard -- Road scholars -- The saga of Lead Belly -- Travels with Zora Neale Hurston and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle -- Honeymoon in Haiti -- Doctor Jazz -- Bohemian folklorist -- A bourgeois town -- The people's war -- The century of the common man -- Living on the black list -- The grand tour -- Skiffle : from folk to pop -- The American campaign resumed -- The science of folk song -- To hear the world in a grain of sand -- The culture war -- The global jukebox : "got the world in a jug, the stopper in my hand".…”

Traditional music in coastal Louisiana : the 1934 Lomax recordings / by Caffery, Joshua Clegg

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Folksongs of another America : field recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946 / by Leary, James P., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…The Wisconsin Lumberjacks: from Rice Lake and Ladysmith -- In August and September 1938, folklorist Alan Lomax traveled Michigan recording "a thousand songs" for the Library of Congress -- Serbs: Detroit area -- Croatians: Copper Country (THe Floriani Tamburitza Group) -- French Canadians: Baraga -- Finns: Upper Peninsula -- "Enough material for years of work."…”

Bring judgment day : reclaiming Lead Belly's truths from Jim Crow's lies / by Bernard, Sheila Curran

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