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Indlæser... Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World (2010)af John Szwed
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. I got a notice from the library that this had come due, and I was going to return it without finishing it, as it's so dense, but just now I was dipping in, and there are so many gems and vignettes, I think I'll renew it and see if I can't read a little more, glean a little more. ...Okay, I did give up on this. Outside of the section on Alan Lomax's friendship with Zora Neale Hurston (which was fascinating), I found the rest of the book too dense with moment-by-moment facts, events, and people; I guess I wanted more of a narrative? Less information? I'm not sure. The things I liked best were the actual quotes from folksongs and descriptions of places he visited.
"Mr. Szwed’s own interests are as picky and academic as Lomax’s, and as ingratiatingly peculiar. "
Folklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who introduced folk music to the masses. Lomax began his career making field recordings of rural music for the Library of Congress and by the late 1930s brought his discoveries to radio, including Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Burl Ives. By the 1940s he was producing concerts that brought white and black performers together, and in the 1950s he set out to record the whole world. Lomax was also controversial. When he worked for the government he was tracked by the FBI, and when he worked in Britain, MI5 continued the surveillance. In his last years he turned to digital media and developed technologies that anticipated today's breakthroughs. Featuring a cast of characters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Lead Belly, Carl Sagan to Bob Dylan, Szwed's biography provides an account of an era seen through the life of one extraordinary man.--From publisher description. No library descriptions found. |
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...Okay, I did give up on this. Outside of the section on Alan Lomax's friendship with Zora Neale Hurston (which was fascinating), I found the rest of the book too dense with moment-by-moment facts, events, and people; I guess I wanted more of a narrative? Less information? I'm not sure. The things I liked best were the actual quotes from folksongs and descriptions of places he visited.