How a Family Helped Save American Folk Music
For years, the Lomaxes collected examples of songs that might otherwise have been lost to time. First of two parts. Transcript of radio broadcast:
17 January 2010
VOICE ONE:
Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith.
VOICE TWO:
And I'm Steve Ember. Lomax is a name well known to historians of American musical culture. Today we have the first of two programs about how the Lomax family helped keep American folk music from being lost.
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VOICE ONE:
John Lomax with Rich Brown near Sumterville, Alabama, in October 1940John Avery Lomax was born in eighteen sixty-seven. He came from the state of Mississippi but grew up in Texas. His interest in cowboy music led him to research and collect examples of cowboy songs.
In nineteen ten he published a book called "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads." It contained not only the words to songs but some of the music as well. It began with an introduction by President Theodore Roosevelt.
"Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads" was an important research achievement. And it started John Lomax on his lifelong work.
The book included classics like "Sweet Betsy From Pike," "Git Along, Little Dogies" and "Home on the Range." Gene Autry was a singing cowboy in old films. Here he is singing "Home on the Range."
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