Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax, author, anthropologist and son of the American folklorist John Avery Lomax, was born in Austin, Texas on 31 January 1915.

With his father, Lomax produced an archive of American folksong, and he also produced a recorded overview of folksong worldwide for Columbia Records. His multimedia interactive database The Global Jukebox surveys the relationship between human history, dance and song, and he wrote and produced many books, films, records and scientific articles, whilst an anthropologist of the performing arts at Columbia University and Hunter College.

Alan Lomax (1915-2002)
Alan Lomax (1915-2002)

 

Lomax was an advocate of 'cultural equity' - wishing to reverse the trend towards centralisation of communication, giving media time to the whole range of human cultures.

Alan Lomax died on 19 July 2002 aged eighty-seven.