Alan Lomax, assistant in charge : the Library of Congress letters, 1935-1945 / by Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002

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Lonely-Wilds. by Breese, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “….; Calamity the way I think it; Northern pastoral; Chile; A prayer with a hydrangea in it; Supernature; Amen; Subsidy; Fontanel; Beverly & Doris, 1990; Murray River; Her portrait by Alan Lomax; Cenotaph; Inis Óirr; Self-portrait at Glendalough; Note…”
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American folktales : from the collections of the Library of Congress

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Jazz mavericks of the Lone Star State by Oliphant, Dave

Table of Contents: “…Tuning up with a few introductory notes -- Jazz mavericks of the Lone Star State -- The roots of Texan jazz -- From bebop to hard bop and beyond : the Texas jazz connections -- Texas bebop messengers to the world : Kenny Dorham and Leo Wright -- British acolytes of jazz and its Texas contingent -- The Wisconsin-Texas jazz nexus -- Jazz in literature -- The alchemy of jazz -- Ornette Coleman's harmolodic life -- A jazz master's diamond jubilee -- A Texas take on Ken Burns's Jazz -- Swinging through Texas on a Scottish air -- The birth of western swing -- The inventor of jazz revisited : untangling the legacy of Jelly Roll Morton and Alan Lomax -- Discographies and Texan jazz -- San Marcos in jazz history.…”
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New England fiddles : playing down the devil

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American Folk Music as Tactical Media : From the Hootenanny to the People's Microphone. by Svec, Henry Adam

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Heroes and villains : essays on music, movies, comics, and culture by Hajdu, David

Table of Contents: “…A hundred years of blues ; Alan Lomax ; Dinah Washington: Queen ; Ray Charles -- Growing up. …”
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Ruth Crawford Seeger : a composer's search for American music by Tick, Judith

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Prague soundscapes by Jurková, Zuzana

Table of Contents: “…; Chapter 3 Music and social stratification; Antonín Dvořák: Rusalka; Alan Lomax on music as an indicator of social complexity; The Makropulos Case as a semiotic experience.…”
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Being female : reproduction, power, and change

Table of Contents: “…Wilson -- Affectivity and instrumentality in friendship patterns among American women / Ying-Ying Yuan -- An explanation for matrilocal residence / William Tulio Divale -- Women and power : introductory notes / Dana Raphael -- Women and domestic power : political and economic strategies in domestic groups / Louise Lamphere -- A note on a feminine factor in cultural history / Alan Lomax -- Non-hierarchical, hierarchical, and masked reciprocity in the Arab village / Henry Rosenfeld -- Bundu : political implications of female solidarity in a secret society / Carol P. …”
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Pete Seeger Reader. by Cohen, Ronald D.

Table of Contents: “…Dana: Village Vanguard Has Real Hoe-Down (1950)18 Jay Russell: How the Weavers Break Night Club Ice (1950); 19 Frederick Woltman: Melody Weaves On, Along Party Lines (1951); 20 Alan Lomax: Liner Notes to Darling Corey (1950); 21 Letter to Ray M. …”
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The early years of folk music : fifty founders of the tradition by Dicaire, David, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Lloyd (1908-1982), father of English folk -- Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991), renaissance man -- Alan Lomax (1915-2002), folksong revivalist -- Ewan MacColl (1915-1989), English folk revivalist -- Oscar Brand (1920- ), the Can-Am folklorist -- Jean Ritchie (1922- ), the mother of folk -- Harry Smith (1923-1991), the anthologist -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Culture work : folklore for the public good

Table of Contents: “…Keyel -- Hoaxes, History, Legends, and the Circulation of Stories: The Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin's Petrified French Explorer / Jennifer Gipson -- Re-animating the Past: Traveling through Michigan with Alan Lomax's 1938 Films / Guha Shankar -- Translating Context with Digital Media in Medieval Icelandic Literature: Hrafnkels saga and the eSaga Project / Colin Gioia Connors -- Part 6. …”
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The country music reader by Stimeling, Travis D.

Table of Contents: “…Green -- "Coast country biz booms" (1957) -- "Bluegrass background : folk music with overdrive" (1959) / Alan Lomax -- The storyteller's Nashville, on song writing and song plugging (1979) / Tom T. …”
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Music in the USA : a documentary companion

Table of Contents: “…The hard times of Emma Dusenbury, source singer -- 100. John and Alan Lomax propose a "Canon for American folk song" -- 101. …”
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