Lomax, John A.

Lomax, John A. (Avery)

(1867–1948) folklorist; born in Goodman, Miss. He was raised in Texas, where as a teenager he began writing down cowboy songs. He taught and worked while earning his B.A. from the University of Texas (1895) and then got M.A.s in English from Texas (1906) and Harvard (1907). Encouraged by Harvard faculty and enabled by Harvard fellowships, he began systematically collecting cowboy songs at a time when most academics looked down on such an interest; his Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (1910) was a landmark compilation. In order to support his family, for 20 years he moved back and forth from work in university administration to investment and banking institutions, but he continued to collect and lecture on folksongs. In 1932 he finally began to receive adequate financial aide so that he could take to the road full-time; assisted by his son Alan Lomax, he traveled mostly throughout the south and west; he replaced the old horn-and-cylinder recording machine with a battery powered microphone and disc-cutting machine, and over the years they recorded some 10,000 songs, eventually deposited in the Library of Congress Archives of American Folksong, of which he was named the first curator. Among his many discoveries were such songs as "Home on the Range" and "John Henry," and in 1933 the singer Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter. His American Ballads and Folk Songs (1934) and Our Singing Country (compiled with his son, 1941), popularized folk music and inspired the folksong movement of the following decades.

单词	lomax, john a.
释义	Lomax, John A. Lomax, John A. (Avery) (1867–1948) folklorist; born in Goodman, Miss. He was raised in Texas, where as a teenager he began writing down cowboy songs. He taught and worked while earning his B.A. from the University of Texas (1895) and then got M.A.s in English from Texas (1906) and Harvard (1907). Encouraged by Harvard faculty and enabled by Harvard fellowships, he began systematically collecting cowboy songs at a time when most academics looked down on such an interest; his Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (1910) was a landmark compilation. In order to support his family, for 20 years he moved back and forth from work in university administration to investment and banking institutions, but he continued to collect and lecture on folksongs. In 1932 he finally began to receive adequate financial aide so that he could take to the road full-time; assisted by his son Alan Lomax, he traveled mostly throughout the south and west; he replaced the old horn-and-cylinder recording machine with a battery powered microphone and disc-cutting machine, and over the years they recorded some 10,000 songs, eventually deposited in the Library of Congress Archives of American Folksong, of which he was named the first curator. Among his many discoveries were such songs as "Home on the Range" and "John Henry," and in 1933 the singer Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter. His American Ballads and Folk Songs (1934) and Our Singing Country (compiled with his son, 1941), popularized folk music and inspired the folksong movement of the following decades.
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