Author photo. John Lomax collection, Library of Congress

John Lomax collection, Library of Congress

John A. Lomax (1867–1948)

Author of Folk Song USA

Includes the names: John Avery Lomax
Also includes: John A. & Alan (edit). Lomax (1), John A. & Lomax Lomax, Alan (Collected, Adapted and Arranged by) (1)

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Folk Song USA 72 copies
American Ballads and Folk Songs 59 copies, 2 reviews
Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads 20 copies, 2 reviews
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads 18 copies
Adventures of a ballad hunter 11 copies
Best Loved American Folk Songs 5 copies
Songs of the cattle trail and cow camp 5 copies
Negro Folk Songs as Sung By Lead Belly 4 copies
Will Hogg, Texan 2 copies

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Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Texas, USA

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Goodman, Mississippi, USA

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Goodman, Mississippi, USA (birth)

Education

University of Texas, Austin ( [1899])

Harvard University

Occupations

association director

ethnomusicologist

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Hawes, Bess Lomax (daughter)

Lomax, Alan (son)

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