Alan Lomax

[...]he came to anticipate what much of the academic folklorist profession came to embrace three decades later, that folk- lore must be understood in context. his use of the tape recorder for field recording was the first in the profession, and he contributed to the foundation for oral history research. [...]the book would have been livened by some photos of lomax and his colleagues and contemporaries, to give a feel for his times and the varied circumstances of his vast career. minor limitations aside, Szwed's biogra- phy is a major contribution for understanding one of the most important figures in the fields of folklore and ethnomusicology

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