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Folklorist John Avery Lomax
JOHN AVERY LOMAXSeptember 23, 1867 - January 26, 1948 Folklorist John Lomax spent his life collecting songs. According to one writer, Lomax would find the music “around chuck wagons, on levees and railroads, in the saloons, churches, and penitentiaries of the South and Southwest.”John Lomax’s life-long commitment to preserving folk song began when he first heard cowboy ballads near the Chisholm Trail in Bosque County, Texas. He graduated from The University of Texas in 1897 and later... Read More