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Alan Lomax is a famed ethnomusicologist, a person who studies the cultural and historical significance of a song or music genre. For his work, he traveled to different parts of the world to record and archive traditional music. Listen to recordings Lomax made in the US South, the Caribbean, and Britain, Ireland, and Scotland. While some of this music originated outside the United States, it all comes from cultures that have influenced US music.

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An expert in traditional and folk American music, Alex Lomax (1915-2002). He was influenced by his father who had been the head archivist of American songs in the genre of Folk. Many years after, Alex immersed in the study of folk music and its roots, traveling to places such as Michigan, Louisiana, and New York, where he organized presentations to promote American Folk Music. At the beginning of the 1950s, he was accused of Communist and had to travel to England. When things calmed down, he returned to the US in 1958.

Alex Lomax was a true expert in American Folk music and dedicated his life to research, support, and promote this music genre.