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The Man Who Recorded the World
Viking Adult
January 2011
On Sale: December 30, 2010
448 pages
ISBN: 0670021997
EAN: 9780670021994
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
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 a controversial figure. When he worked for
the U. S. 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
technology that anticipated today's breakthroughs. Featuring
a cast of characters including Eleanor Roosevelt, Leadbelly,
Carl Sandburg, Carl Sagan, Jelly Roll Morton, Muddy Waters,
and Bob Dylan, Szwed's fascinating biography memorably
captures Lomax and provides a definitive account of an era
as seen through the life of one extraordinary man.
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