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Alan Lomax: Making a Science of Man's Music

Geoffrey Cannon, Los Angeles Times, 23 January 1972

Alan Lomax, the man who went into the fields of the southern states in the 1930s and brought the glory of the blues to the attention of the world, is alive, and very well, in Spanish Harlem. Geoffrey Cannon went to see him, and found Lomax on the verge of what is, in his view, the most important discoveries of his life.

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