- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- January 31, 1915
- Place of Birth
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Died
- July 19, 2002
Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax was an American field collector of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a folklorist, ethnomusicologist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the US and in England, which played an important role in both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. He collected material first with his father, folklorist and collector John A. Lomax, and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song, of which he was the director, at the Library of Congress on aluminium and acetate discs.
Filmography
Ballads, Blues & Bluegrass
movieBallads, Blues & Bluegrass
2012 · Self, Director, Producer
movieWoody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
2006 · Archival Footage
Lomax the Songhunter
movieLomax the Songhunter
2004 · Self (archive footage)
movieDevil Got My Woman: Blues at Newport 1966
1996 · Producer, Director
movieAppalachian Journey
1991 · Narrator, Director
movieCajun Country
1991 · Director
movieDreams and Songs of the Noble Old
1991 · Director
tvAmerican Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America
1990 · Self - Host, Writer, Director, Producer
movieJazz Parades: Feet Don't Fail Me Now
1990 · Director
The Ballad of Ewan MacColl
movieThe Ballad of Ewan MacColl
1990 · Self
movieBBC Arena: Woody Guthrie
1988 · Self
movieThe Land Where the Blues Began
1979 · Writer, Producer, Director
movieStep Style
1977 · Director
Dana Can Deal
movieDana Can Deal
1976 · Sound Recordist
movieDance and Human History
1974 · Director
movieGreen Mansions
1959 · Thanks
movieOss Oss Wee Oss
1953 · Director, Writer
movieTo Hear Your Banjo Play
1947 · Writer