Word: lomax
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...from Guthrie and other singers who came out of the South and West. "Pete Seeger sings folk songs," Woody once said. "Bob Dylan is a folk singer." This other side of Seeger is the ethnomusicologist, (the trade which his father also pursues.) Seeger often refers in concert to Alan Lomax, who collected a lot of backwoods songs for the Library of Congress. This is work which Seeger believes in very strongly. "People often tend to forget their own culture," he says. "It takes somebody from the outside to come in and remind them...
...montage of Malcolm's speeches and press conferences interspersed with footage of the hell in which black Americans still live. The use of montage is effective, and shows a great deal of imagination in overcoming the lack of documentary footage of Malcolm's life. Although according to Louis Lomax. Malcolm could draw on any given day "more people than Adam Powell. A. Phillip Randolph, Martin Luther King, and Roy Wilkins put together," the white news media largely ignored Malcolm and as a result there is little film footage available on Malcolm's life. The lack of material causes the film...
...recent years each generation has gone back to the mountains to save something vital of the country's sense of identity. Alan Lomax in the '30s, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger since, rescued what they could of the songs and music...
...began to play guitar, imitating the choked "bottleneck" style of two older, semilegendary primitives, Eddie "Son" House and Robert Johnson. Around 1941, Folk Archivist Alan Lomax came to Clarksdale and recorded Muddy for the Library of Congress. That helped convince Muddy that he might be able to make it up North, where the factories had work, and a job was not called off if it rained. As Muddy once put it: "I came up to Chicago on a train. Alone. With a suitcase, one suit of clothes and a guitar...
...which one's social position was, in part, evaluated by the number of one's citations on the society page of the Atlanta Daily World. King was sufficiently media-conscious as to keep a listing of the reporters who came to cover him at Montgomery. However, as Williams cites Lomax who was on the scene, "'What we did not realize was that certain white men and events would make the choice' for King to become as famous...