Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax, nado o 31 de xaneiro de 1915 en Austin e finado o 19 de xullo de 2002 en Safety Harbor, foi un importante etnomusicólogo estadounidense, considerado como un dos máis grandes compiladores de cancións populares do século XX. Traxectoria
Alan Lomax era fillo do tamén etnomusicólogo John Lomax, con quen comezou a súa carreira aos 22 anos gravando temas cantados por presos ou por traballadores afroamericanos de Texas, Luisiana e Misisipi. Graduose en filosofía na Universidade de Texas en Austin, e traballou posteriormente en varios proxectos para a Biblioteca do Congreso dos Estados Unidos de América. Desenvolveu o seu propio sistema para analizar cancións, que chamou cantométrica, onde trataba principalmente de atopar as relacións entre a socioloxía e o corpus musical.
Dedicou a maior parte da súa vida a viaxar polo mundo para recoller coa súa gravadora mostras do folclore musical de países como España, Italia, Irlanda, India ou Romanía. Visitou Galicia en 1952, e realizou gravacións que deron pé ao disco The Spanish Recordings: Galicia, onde incluíu o asubío recollido en Faramontaos (Nogueira de Ramuín) no que se inspirou Miles Davis para crear a peza "The Pan Piper".
Tamén lanzou á fama a varios intérpretes de blues, como Muddy Waters, Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Jelly Roll Morton ou Jeannie Robertson, ademais de gravar estilos musicais case descoñecidos, como os espirituais de Sea Islands. Participou en varios programas de radio e series de televisión, e desempeñou un papel importante no “renacemento” do folk (folk revival) que tivo lugar nos anos 1950 e 1960 nos EUA e Inglaterra.
Colaborou tamén con Ruth Crowford Seeger en dúas importantes antoloxías durante a década de 1940, Our Singing Country, 1941, e Folk Song: USA, 1947.
Gañou o prestixioso premio National Book Critics Circle Award en 1993 polo seu libro The Land Where the Blues Began, onde expuña a historia das orixes do blues. Morreu en Florida, aos 87 anos, e un ano máis tarde recibiu un póstumo Grammy en recoñecemento á súa vida e á súa achega á música. Obras
American Ballads and Folk Songs (1934)
Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Leadbelly (1936)
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (1937)
Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Ballads and Folk Songs (1941)
American Folksong and Folklore (1942)
Folk Songs: USA (1946)
Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz" (1950)
Harriet and Her Harmonium (1955)
The Rainbow Sign (1959)
The Folk Songs of North America (1960)
The Leadbelly Songbook (1962)
Hard-Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People (1967)
Folk Song Style and Culture (1968)
3000 Years of Black Poetry (1969)
Cantometrics: A Method of Musical Anthropology (1977)
Land Where the Blues Began (1993)
Brown Girl in the Ring: An Anthology of Song Games from the Eastern Caribbean Alan Lomax (1997) Discografía (selección de gravacións)
Deep river of song
Deep river of song: Alabama
Deep river of song: Bahamas 1935 (volume 2): Ring games and round dances
Deep river of song: Bahamas 1935 - Chanteys and Anthems from Andros and Cat Island
Deep river of song: Black Appalachia - String Bands, Songsters and Hoedowns
Deep river of song: Black Texicans - Balladeers and Songsters of the Texas Frontier
Deep river of song: Georgia
Deep river of song: Louisiana: Catch That Train and Testify!
Deep river of song: Mississippi Saints & Sinners
Deep river of song: Mississippi: The Blues Lineage
Deep river of song: South Carolina: Got the Keys to the Kingdom
Deep river of song: Virginia
Negro Sinful Songs (1939)
Dustbowl Ballads (1940)
The Midnight Special (1940)
Music and interviews with Jelly Roll Morton (1941)
Folk Songs of the United States
American Sea Songs And Shanties
Folk Songs of Great Britain (1961)
Folk Songs of Spain (1953)
The Spanish Recordings: Asturias
The Spanish Recordings: Aragón & València
The Spanish Recordings: Basque Country: Biscay and Guipuzcoa
The Spanish Recordings: Basque Country: Navarre
The Spanish Recordings: Extremadura
The Spanish Recordings: Galicia
The Spanish Recordings: Ibiza & Formentera: The Pityusic Islands
The Spanish Recordings: Mallorca: The Balearic Islands
Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music (1955)
World library of folk and primitive music, vol. 1: England
World library of folk and primitive music, vol. 2: Ireland
World library of folk and primitive music, vol. 3: Scotland
World library of folk and primitive music vol. 4: Spain
World library of folk and primitive music, vol. 5: Yugoslavia
World library of folk and primitive music, vol. 7: India
World library of folk and primitive music, vol. 8: France
World library of folk and primitive music, vol. 14: Northern and central Italy
Heather and Glen (1959)
Southern Journey (1959)
Southern Journey vol. 1: Voices from the American South - Blues, Ballads, Hymns, Reels, Shouts, Chanteys and Work Songs
Southern Journey vol. 2: Ballads and Breakdowns -- Songs from the Southern Mountains
Southern Journey vol. 3: 61 Highway Mississippi - Delta Country Blues, Spirituals, Work Songs & Dance Music
Southern Journey vol. 4: Brethren, We Meet Again -- Southern White Spirituals
Southern Journey vol. 5: Bad Man Ballads - Songs of Outlaws and Desperadoes
Southern Journey vol. 6: Sheep, Sheep, Don'tcha Know the Road? - Southern Music, Sacred and Sinful
Southern Journey vol. 7: Ozark Frontier
Southern Journey vol. 8: Velvet Voices
Negro Prison Songs (1959)
Prison Songs, V. 1: Murderous Home
Prison Songs V. 2: Don'tcha Hear Poor Mother Calling?
Southern Folk Heritage (1960)
The Gospel Ship: Baptist Hymns and White Spirituals from the Southern Mountains (1977)
Sound of the south (1993)