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

During Lomax's two-week lecture tour with Lead Belly on the eastern College circuit in March 1934 ( pre-scheduled by Lomax before teaming up with Lead Belly ), the two men quarreled over money and never spoke to one another again.

The book was immediately optioned to be made into a Hollywood movie starring Bing Crosby as Lomax and Josh White as Lead Belly, but the project was never realized.

In a 2007 Houston Press article journalist John Nova Lomax said " residential Sharpstown never changes " and that " the houses are still decent and the apartments still rotten.

" The time has come for Americans not to be ashamed of what we go for, musically, from primitive ballads to rock ' n ' roll songs ", Lomax told the audience.

In 1959, Louis Lomax told Wallace about the Nation of Islam.

At the end she told Alan Lomax about the parts of the story that she had not sung.

He is discovered by the headmistress, Miss Elspeth Lomax, who says she has been told by Edward that Peter is in love with her.

When Alan was 10, the family moved to Dallas, where John Lomax took a job selling bonds in a bank.

Previous owners were the Lomax family who bought the house in 1666 and who lived there until 1854 when Joshua Lomax sold it to Henry Hayman Toulmin, a wealthy ship owner and High Sheriff of Hertfordshire and mayor of St Albans.

The Lomax family originally came from England in the 18th century when William Lomax settled in a colony in North Carolina.

In December 1869, the Lomax family traveled by ox cart from Mississippi to Texas.

A few months later, Ferguson was impeached and the Board of Regents rescinded its dismissal of the faculty, Lomax who felt some loyalty to the family of Barrett Wendell felt it would be wrong to desert his post at the Chicago brokerage so quickly and remained in Chicago for the duration of the war.

Tragedy struck the Lomax family in 1931 when Lomax's beloved wife Bess Brown died at the age of fifty, leaving four children ( the youngest, Bess, only ten years old ).

Thus began a ten-year relationship with the Library of Congress that would involve not only John but the entire Lomax family, including his second wife, Ruby Terrill Lomax, Professor of Classics and Dean of Women at the University of Texas, whom he married in 1934.

John Lomax III's son John Nova Lomax also kept up the family tradition.

Article by Michael Corcoran in Austin Statesman about John A. Lomax and the Gant family of Austin, Texas

The next day, after making arrangements through family connections to get into George Lomax ’ s party, Bundle returns to the Seven Dials club and questions Alfred as to why he left Chimneys.

He graduated from Buchtel High School in 1979, and earned a National Merit Scholarship to Ohio University where he met his wife, Dawn Lomax, whose family is also from Akron.

Julie is astounded at first and initially wonders why Ishmael does not ask Alan Lomax to help him instead.

In 1940, Lomax and his close friend Nicholas Ray went on to write and produce a fifteen-minute program, Back Where I Come From, which aired three nights a week on CBS and featured folk tales, proverbs, prose, and sermons, as well as songs, organized thematically.

After his three-months as a performer illustrating John A. Lomax's lectures, Lead Belly went on to a fifteen-year career as an independent artist, championed and assisted intermittently ( but not managed ) by Alan Lomax.

Lomax went to Spain in 1952-3 to avoid persecution as a Communist and found some hostility from Spanish researchers, then in a period of great political upheaval.

It was written after Lead Belly went to Washington, D. C. at the request of Alan Lomax, to record a number of songs for the Library of Congress.

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 ".

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.

Though the club was only advertised through small ads in the back of music magazines, Lomax immediately began to receive hundreds of impassioned letters from around the world written by people who felt touched by Van Zandt.

He showed them to an English professor, Morgan Callaway, only to have them discounted as " cheap and unworthy ," prompting Lomax to take the bundle behind the men ’ s dormitory and burn it.

As an on-camera performer, he was one of only three adult regulars, along with Teri Misner and Mowava Pryor on the 1990s incarnation of The Mickey Mouse Club, and can currently be seen performing wacky sounds while teaching phonics on the PBS reading series Between the Lions ( for which he also writes and provides animated voices ), and as the conductor on PBS's Lomax, the Hound of Music.

Lomax was the first prominent scholar to study distinctly American folk music such as that of cowboys and southern blacks.

In 1961, Jones played Ena Sharples ' grandson, Colin Lomax, the second year Coronation Street was broadcast.

Lomax was the first prominent scholar to study distinctly American folk music such as that of cowboys and southern blacks.

He was recorded by John and Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941 and ' 42.

Morrison's father bought him his first acoustic guitar when he was eleven, and he learned to play rudimentary chords from the song book, The Carter Family Style, edited by Alan Lomax.

Lomax added that " Culturally, the county was less moonlight-and-magnolias Dixie than a little pocket of Appalachia, where pioneers, often from similarly hardscrabble areas of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, wanted nothing more than to carve homesteads out of the Piney Woods and river thickets, farm a little, maybe raise a scraggly herd of tough cattle to drive to market in New Orleans.

Trenton was first settled in 1834 and was known as Lomax Store for the J. S.

These researchers included Robert W. Gordon, founder of the Archive of American Folk Song, and John and Alan Lomax ; Alan Lomax was the most prominent of several folk song collectors who helped to inspire the 20th century roots revival of American folk culture.

Alan Lomax ( January 15, 1915 – July 19, 2002 ) was one of the great American field collectors of folk music of the 20th century.

Lomax, born in Austin in 1915, was third of the four children of pioneering folklorist and author John A. Lomax, with whom he started his career by recording songs sung by sharecroppers and prisoners in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

Although the Great Depression was rapidly causing his family's resources to plummet, Harvard came up with enough financial aid for the 16-year-old Lomax to spend his sophomore year there.

From 1937 to 1942, Lomax was Assistant in Charge of the Archive of Folk Song of the Library of Congress to which he and his father and numerous collaborators contributed more than ten thousand field recordings.

In late 1939, Lomax hosted a series on CBS's nationally broadcast American School of the Air, called American Folk Songs and Wellsprings of Music, a music appreciation course that aired daily in the schools and was supposed to highlight links between American folk and classical orchestral music.

The individual programs reached ten million students in 200, 000 U. S. classrooms and was also broadcast in Canada, Hawaii, and Alaska, but both Lomax and his father felt that the concept of the show, which portrayed folk music as mere raw material for orchestral music, was deeply flawed and failed to do justice to vernacular culture.

Lomax wished to marry Collins but when the recording trip was over, she returned to England and married Austin John Marshall.

According to Fred, his son was named for Lamont Lomax, a ( presumably fictional ) pitcher from the Homestead Grays.