Each summer, between 1891 and 1894, he also attended the annual lecture-and-concert series at New York State's Chautauqua Institute, which pioneered adult education ( and where Lomax himself would later lecture ).

Lomax, however, driven by consciousness of the inadequacy of his early education, still burned with the desire to improve himself, and on September 26, 1906, he jumped at the chance to attend Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a graduate student, having previously received a $ 500 stipend: The Austin Teaching Fellowships.

In 1912, with the backing of Kittredge, John A. Lomax was elected president of the American Folklore Society, with Kittredge ( himself a former president of the society ) as First Vice President.

Alan Lomax himself stressed repeatedly that completeness of sampling was not the point:

" Alan Lomax, wrote: " Anonymous black musicians, longing to grab a train and ride away from their troubles, incorporated the rhythms of the steam locomotive and the moan of their whistles into the new dance music they were playing in jukes and dance halls.

On hearing the news Woody Guthrie wrote Lomax from California, " Too honest again, I suppose?

In September 1934, Lead Belly wrote to Lomax requesting employment, since he needed to have a job in order not to be sent back to prison.

In his 1942 introduction to the multi-volume " Checklist of Recorded Folk Song in the Library of Congress ", Harold Spivacke, Chief of the Library of Congress's Division of Music, wrote: Many hard-working and expert folklorists cooperated in the accumulation of this material, but in the main the development of the Archive of American Folk Song represents the work of two men, John and Alan Lomax.

In the early stages of his work on the Cantometrics coding system, Lomax wrote of the relationship of musical style to culture :" Its fundamental diagnostic traits appear to be vocal quality ( color, timbre, normal pitch, attack, type of melodic ornamentation, etc.

Scott Lomax ( born 1982 ) is a campaigner and true crime author who wrote about the case of the convicted murderer Jeremy Bamber, and also about the innocence of Barry George who was acquitted of the murder of Jill Dando on 1 August 2008 after a retrial ordered by the Court of Appeal.

John Nova Lomax of the Houston Press said that the residents of Angelina County " were, and are, a self-sufficient breed, good with their hands, bluntly honest and leery of all central authority.

The book featured the fruits of over eight years of research, including interviews with Mickey Newbury, Jack Clement, Guy and Susanna Clark, Mickey White, Rex Bell, Dan Rowland, Richard Dobson, John Lomax III, Van Zandt's brother and sister, cousins, and all three of his ex-wives, and many others.

John Nova Lomax, the author of the list, commented " Yeah, yeah, I like the curves and all that, but this concrete hulk still looks like something Stalin ’ s favorite architect would have come up with on ‘ shrooms.

In addition, the Dallas bank at which Lomax worked failed: he had to phone his customers one by one to announce that their investments were all worthless.

As Curator and Assistant in Charge of the Folk Song Collection John and Alan Lomax supervised and worked with many other folklorists, musicologists, and composers, amateur and professional, all over the country, amassing over ten thousand records of vocal and instrumental music on aluminum and acetate discs along with many pages of written documentation.

She returns to Chimneys and tells her father all that has happened and he tells her in turn that during his absence he received a visit from George Lomax, the Under-Secretary for State for Foreign Affairs who received a strange warning letter written from the Seven Dials district of London.

Lomax discovers that all five of the deceased attorneys died under questionable circumstances: two in the diving accident, and the other three in a car accident, a hunting accident and a suicide, respectively.

In 2009 all four films were included on the DVD Rhythms of Earth: The Choreometrics Films of Alan Lomax and Forrestine Paulay produced by John Bishop ( Media-Generation, 1974 – 2008 ), which included old and new interviews with the original participants of the study.

Alan Lomax foresaw that computers would be an ideal way to make Cantometrics analysis available not just to scholars but to people of all ages and educational backgrounds, particularly school children.

KABC has been the base of operation for many influential radio hosts, including early talk polemicists Joe Pyne and Louis Lomax, Ira Fistel, Michael Jackson, whose talk show attracted celebrities, politicians, and newsmakers of all types, pioneering radio psychologists Dr. Toni Grant and David Viscott, and more recent syndicated hosts including Dennis Prager ( now with NewsTalk 870 KRLA and the Salem Radio Network ), John and Ken ( on KFI before their stint on KABC and currently back on KFI ) and Larry Elder ( now back on KABC as a local show ).

John Nova Lomax of the Houston Press said in a 2006 article that the segment of Westheimer in Westchase contains " virtually all chains -- a Geography of Nowhere wasteland of Boston Market, Borders, Kroger, Randalls, Taco Bell, Citgo and Sonic.

: It ’ s been great to have the support of Cathy Lomax at Transition Gallery, she has been one of the few people to really believe in me ... she ’ d say, “ great do it, just do it all, you shouldn ’ t censor yourself so much, stop chucking stuff out !” Nice genuine support without any motive.

These researchers include the pioneering American folk song collector Alan Lomax, whose work helped inspire the roots revival of the mid-20th century.

Lomax also did important field work with Elizabeth Barnicle and Zora Neale Hurston in Florida and the Bahamas ( 1935 ); with John Wesley Work III and Lewis Jones in Mississippi ( 1941 and 42 ); with folksingers Robin Roberts and Jean Ritchie in Ireland ( 1950 ); with his second wife Antoinette Marchand in the Caribbean ( 1961 ); with Shirley Collins in Britain and the American South ( 1959 ); with Joan Halifax in Morocco ; and with his daughter.

In a letter to the editor of a British newspaper, Lomax took a writer to task for describing him as a " victim of witch-hunting ", insisting that he was in the UK only to work on his Columbia Project.

When he met John Lomax in 1907, this was what he encouraged him to do ; the cowboy songs Lomax had been writing down were glimpses into a whole new world, and Lomax should follow up on his work.

Galvanized by Kittredge's advice and support, Lomax had begun collecting cowboy songs and ballads, but his work was interrupted on February 7, 1908, when " The Great A & M Strike " broke out.

Lomax's biographer, Nolan Porterfield, notes that the outlines of the famed WPA State Guides resulting from this work resemble Lomax and Benedict ’ s earlier Book of Texas.

In his editorial capacity he closely adhered to this dictum. Upon Lomax's departure this work was continued by Benjamin A. Botkin, who succeeded Lomax as the Project's folklore editor in 1938, and at the Library in 1939, resulting in the invaluable compendium of authentic slave narratives: Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery, edited by B.

Despite being out of work, Ena was soon caught up with other problems as Vera came to stay having separated from her husband Bob Lomax.

Robert Lomax is a young Englishman who, after completing his National Service, decides to go and work on a plantation in British Malaya.

One of the label's projects is the Alan Lomax Collection, a series of releases of the work of the pioneering ethnomusiclogist and folklorist.

Lomax later claimed he was blown away, and called it the most significant work in his long and storied career.

The second revival in the period after World War II, built on this work and followed a similar movement in America, to which it was connected to it by individuals like Alan Lomax, who had fled to England in the era of McCarthyism.

Folk-music collectors like the great Alan Lomax worked assiduously for decades to find and record examples of almost every facet of native American, African-American and European-American folk music, and the work of these many scholars, enthusiasts and collectors preserved the sound of many " folk " performers and thousands of hours of priceless song and music from the American folk music tradition.

Archie Green is generally credited as the founder of the public folklore movement, although his work builds on that of Ben Botkin and Alan Lomax, going back as far as the 1930s.

Inspired by the example of Alan Lomax, who had arrived in Britain and Ireland in 1950, and had done extensive fieldwork there, MacColl also began to collect and perform traditional ballads.

The elder Lomax, a former professor of English at Texas A & M and a celebrated authority on Texas folklore and cowboy songs, had worked as an administrator, and later Secretary of the Alumni Society, of the University of Texas.

Because of childhood asthma, chronic ear infections, and generally frail health, Lomax had mostly been home schooled in elementary school.

In February 1941, Lomax spoke and gave a demonstration of his program along with talks by Nelson A. Rockefeller from the Pan American Union, and the president of the American Museum of Natural History, at a global conference in Mexico of a thousand broadcasters CBS had sponsore to launch its worldwide programming initiative.

Feeling sure that the Act would pass and realizing that his career in broadcasting was in jeopardy, Lomax, who was newly divorced and already had an agreement with Goddard Lieberson of Columbia Records to record in Europe, hastened to renew his passport, cancel his speaking engagements, and plan for his departure, telling his agent he hoped to return in January " if things cleared up ".

Alan Lomax had met 20-year-old English folk singer Shirley Collins while living in London.

About 1876, the nine-year-old Lomax met and became close friends with Nat Blythe, a former slave who had just been hired as a farmhand by James Lomax.

Lomax never saw him again and heard rumors that he had been murdered.

In his memoir, Adventures of a Ballad Hunter, Lomax recounts how he had arrived at the University of Texas with a roll of cowboy songs he had written down in childhood.

Sometime around July 1898 Lomax began an intense relationship with Miss Shirley Green of Palestine, Texas, whom he had met in 1897.

Their friendship had its ups and downs for years until June 1902, when Lomax met Bess Baumann Brown from Dallas, one of Green's acquaintances.

For example, in December 1911, Lomax made a successful performance at Cornell University, singing and reciting some of the cowboy songs he had collected.

That year Lomax returned to Texas to be secretary of the Texas Exes, which had become financially independent of the University, so as to avoid further interference from politicians.

" But what these folklorists had merely recommended John and Alan Lomax were able to put into practice.

Yet whatever racial preconceptions Lomax may have held do not appear to have had an appreciable effect upon the Slave Narrative Collection.

Bess Lomax Hawes, who was twenty at the time and did not sing on the John Doe album, writes in her autobiography Sing It Pretty ( 2008 ), that for her part, she had taken the pacifist oath as a girl out repugnance for the senseless brutality of the first World War ( a sentiment shared by many ) and that she took the oath very seriously.