1959Nominee
Best Performance
Green Mansions
Alan Lomax
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Austin, Texas, USA
January 31, 1915
Biography
Alan Lomax was an American field collector of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a folklorist, ethnomusicologist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the US and in England, which played an important role in both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. He collected material first with his father, folklorist and collector John A. Lomax, and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song, of which he was the director, at the Library of Congress on aluminium and acetate discs.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1991Winner
Best Performance
Appalachian Journey
1977Nominee
Best Director
Step Style
Career Highlights
1988Highlight
Best Performance
BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie
2006Highlight
Best Performance
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
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Green Mansions
Appalachian Journey