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Alan Lomax was 'the song hunter'. He devoted his life to recording the world's folk tunes before they would disappear with the rise of the modern music industry. In Lomax the Songhunter, filmmaker Rogier Kappers seeks to tell Lomax's story by interviewing friends such as Pete Seeger, combining it with archival recordings of music greats Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly, and gathering footage of the cotton fields, rock quarries and prisons where Alan Lomax captured America’s quintessential music. Finally, Kappers follows the route that Lomax took so many years ago and travels to remote villages in Spain and Italy, hearing memories and music from the farmers, shepherds and weavers whose songs Lomax recorded decades earlier.
2015 marks the 100th anniversary of Alan Lomax's birth.
The film will be followed by a discussion
- Hosted by
- Elphinstone Institute
- Venue
- MacRobert Building, MR051
- Contact
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No Booking required. Free Entry. All Welcome.
Elphinstone Institute MacRobert Building, King's College, Aberdeen, AB24 5UA
Tel: +44 (0)1224 272996 Fax: +44 (0)1224 272728 Email: elphinstone@abdn.ac.ukThe Elphinstone Institute 1995-2015
Celebrating 20 years of Ethnology and Folklore Research