by John Szwed
England, Alan’s work in. See also BBC Radio
collaboration with Ewan MacColl
departure from England
film ideas
folk song album
freelance writing
life in London
May Day festival film
police surveillance and inquiries
prospect of work
psychology research proposal
Punch cartoon
television program on folk music
English and Scottish Popular Ballads, The (Child)
English Folk Dance and Song Society
English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians (Sharp)
Ennis, Seamus
Erickson, Edwin
Ertegun, Ahmet and Nesuhi
Estes, Sleepy John
ethnomusicology as academic discipline
Ethnomusicology journal
Europe, world music project in. See also specific countries
Evans, Jean
Evans, Luther
Everly Brothers
Fadiman, Clifton
Falcon, Cléoma
Father of the Blues (Handy)
Faulk, Johnny
FBI interest in Alan
arrest at protest demonstration
Communist allegations
interrogation
notification of London police
notification of Spanish authorities
surveillance and reports
Feather, Leonard
Federal Theatre Living Newspaper
Federal Workers School
Federal Writers’ Project
Ferguson, James
film and filmmaking
American Patchwork
blues project
choreometrics project
Colonial Williamsburg project
of dance and movement
documentary form
of English May Day festival
formation of film company
global network of archives
of music in Greenwich Village
of Newport Folk Festival
series proposal
shortcomings of, for scientific study
“small movies,”
Finney, Ross Lee
Fisk University/Library of Congress project
fieldwork
fieldworker seminars
goals and plans
personnel conflict
unfinished book about, My Heart Struck Sorrow
Fitzgerald, Ella
Flanders, Helen Hartness
folklore, Alan’s approach to
Folklore Center (New York)
folk music
authenticity in performance
citybillies
compositions based upon
copyright protection
cowboy songs and ballads
early collections
ethnomusicological study of
payment of performers
psychological study of
revival
song style and song families
vocal style and behavioral traits
women as bearers of tradition
folk plays
folk song collecting
American interest in
equipment
in field
impact of audio recording
lack of support for
Lomax partnership
systematization of
Folk Songs of Mississippi and Their Backgrounds (Hudson)
Folk Songs of North America, The (A. Lomax)
“Folk Song Style” (A. Lomax)
Folk Song Style and Culture (A. Lomax)
Folk Song U.S.A. (J. Lomax and A. Lomax)
Folkways Records
Ford Foundation
Fort Valley State College (Georgia)
Foster, Pops
Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland . . . (Macpherson)
France
Frank, Lew, Jr.
Frank, Waldo
Frazier, Calvin
Freedom Singers
Freedom Songs of the United Nations (Lomax)
Friends of Old Time Music
“From Spirituals to Swing” concerts
Fruit Jar Guzzlers
Fuson, Harvey H.
Gabler, Milt
Garner, Jack Nance
Garroway, Dave
Geer, Will
Gellert, Lawrence
General Records
Gennett Records
George, Brian
Georgia
Georgia Sea Island Singers
Gershwin, George
Gerstman, Pamela
Gibson, Jackie
Gilbert, Ronnie
Gillespie, Dizzy
Gladden, Texas
Glazer, Tom
Global Jukebox project
Glover, Savion
Gods of Lightning (Anderson and Hickerson)
Golden Gate Quartet
Goldschmidt, Walter
Goldstein, Kenneth
Goldwyn, Sam
Goodman, Elizabeth Harold. See Lomax, Elizabeth
“Goodnight Irene,”
Gordon, John Wesley “Left Wing,”
Gordon, Lewis
Gordon, Max
Gordon, Robert W.
Gottlieb, William
Graham, Katherine
Grainger, Porter
Granada TV
Grapes of Wrath, The (film)
“Grapes of Wrath Evening” benefit
Grauer, Victor
Graves, Blind Roosevelt
Graves, Robert
Green, Paul
Green, Shirley
Greenbriar Boys
Grimble, Ian
Grofé, Ferde
Grossman, Albert
Growing Up in the Black Belt (Johnson)
Guggenheim Fellowships
Guion, David
Guthrie, Woody
in Almanac Singers
antifascist songs
arrest
Bound for Glory
commercial recording contract
concerts
film appearances
friendship with Lead Belly
Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People
illness
Library of Congress recordings
as performer
political work
radio performances
Rosenwald Fellowship
separation from wife
Haiti
Alan’s marriage in
anthropological interest in
civil decline
fieldwork
guides for researchers
languages and class structure
Vodou religion
Halifax, Joan
Hall, Vera
Hall Johnson Choir
Halpert, Herbert
Hamer, Fanny Lou
Hammerstein, Oscar
Hammond, John
on death of Bessie Smith
“From Spirituals to Swing” concerts
jazz connections
People’s Songs project
support for Alan’s projects
in Writers’ Committee
Hand, Learned
Handy, W. C.
Hanford, A. C.
Harburg, E. Y. “Yip,”
Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People (Lomax, Guthrie, and Seeger)
Harold, Elizabeth. See Lomax, Elizabeth
Harold, Michael
Harris, R. H.
Harris, Roscoe
Harris, Roy
Harvard
Alan’s studies at
Lead Belly performances at
John Lomax’s studies at
plans for Alan to attend
Hawes, Bess Lomax. See Lomax, Bess (Alan’s sister)
Hayes, Helen
Hays, Lee
Hellerman, Fred
Hemphill, Sid
&n
bsp; Henderson, Hamish
Herald Tribune (New York)
Herrmann, Bernard
Herskovits, Melville J.
Herzog, George
Hickerson, Harold
Highlander Folk School (Tennessee)
Hillary, Mabel
Hines, Gregory
Hinton, Sam
History of Jazz, The (radio program)
HMV recording company
Hodge, Beryl
Holcomb, Roscoe
Holman, Libby
“Hoodoo in New Orleans” (Hurston)
Hootenannies
House, Son
Houseman, John
House Un-American Activities Committee
Houston, Cisco
Howard, James
Hudson, Arthur Palmer
Hughes, Langston
Hughes, Tom
Human Relations Area Files
Hunt, J. M. “Sailor Dan,”
Hunter, Joe (later Ivory Joe Hunter)
Hunter, Nell, and the North Carolina Spiritual Singers
Hunter College
Hurston, Zora Neale
Hurt, Mississippi John
I Hear America Singing (Cooke)
Imperial State Prison Farm (Sugar Land, Texas)
Indiana
Indiana University
Indian music
Interval Research Corporation
Ireland
Italy
Ivens, Joris
Ives, Burl
as alleged subversive
concerts
as performer
radio performances
recordings
J. Walter Thompson Agency
Jackson, Aunt Molly
activism for coal miners
concerts and radio performances
contribution to Lomaxes’ book
as performer
recordings
Jackson, George Pullen
Jackson, Michael
Jakobson, Svatava Pirkova
James, Skip
James, Willis
Jarmusch, Jim
jazz
Creole tradition in
as folk form
“From Spirituals to Swing” concerts
Jelly Roll Morton on
new directions in
trad jazz in England
vocal and physical aspects of
white interpretation of
Jefferson, Blind Lemon
Jelly’s Last Jam (musical)
Jenkins, Gordon
“John Henry” variations
Johnny Johnson (Green and Weill)
Johnson, Blind Willie
Johnson, Bunk
Johnson, Charles
Johnson, George
Johnson, Guy
Johnson, James P.
Johnson, James Weldon
Johnson, Pete
Johnson, Robert
Jones, Bessie
Jones, Elijah
Jones, Leroy
Jones, Lewis
Jones, Thomas E.
Jordan, Louis
Kapp, Jack
Kazan, Elia
Kazee, Buell
Kempton, Murray
Kennedy, Peter
Kentucky
coal miners’ strike
fieldwork
Kilmer, Kip
Kincaid, Bradley
kinesics
King, Coretta Scott
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kingston Trio
Kirkpatrick, Frederick Douglass
Kissinger, Clark
Kittredge, George Lyman
Knott, Sarah Gertrude
Koslow, Pamela
Kulig, Carol
Laban, Rudolf
LaFarge, Peter
La Guardia, Fiorello
Lamothe, Ludovic
Lampell, Millard
Land Where the Blues Began, The (Lomax)
Larkins, Margaret
Leach, McEdward
Leacock, Ricky
Lead Belly
commercial recordings
concerts
death and memorial concert
failed comeback attempt
introduction to New York intellectuals
legal rights to songs and performances
Library of Congress recordings
marriage
media attention to
in prison
prison stripes
radio performances
song-learning approach
white audiences of
work for John Lomax
Leadbelly (film)
Ledbetter, Huddie. See Lead Belly
Ledbetter, Martha
Lee, Canada
Lee, Will
Lehman, Herbert
Léon, Rulx
Lerner, Irving
Leventhal, Harold
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Lewis, C. I.
Lewis, Meade “Lux,”
Lewis, Sinclair
Library of Congress. See also Archive of American Folk Song, Library of Congress
Alan’s lecture-and-record performance
American Folklife Center
designation of Alan as Living Legend
Librarians of Congress
Music Division chiefs
Radio Research Project
recording laboratory
sale of recordings
Thirteenth Amendment celebration
Lieberson, Goddard
Life magazine
Lifetime (prison singer)
Lion, Alfred
Lion, Margo
Lipscomb, Mance
Liss, Joseph
Listen to Our Story (A. Lomax)
Littleton, Joan
Living Newspapers dramatic form
Lloyd, A. L. (Bert)
Locke, Alain
Logan, Tex
Lomax, Alan James. See also specific people, places, and issues in Alan’s life; specific works
birth, childhood, early education
career achievements
career choice and principles
daughter’s birth
death
influence of
marriages
psychoanalysis
relationship with father
relationships with women
self-doubt and anxieties
Lomax, Anne (Anna) Lyttleton
with Alan after parents’ divorce
at Alan’s departure for Europe
during Alan’s final years
birth
college
in Europe
in West Indies
Lomax, Antoinette “Toni,”
Lomax, Bess (Alan’s mother)
Lomax, Bess (Alan’s sister)
as Alan’s assistant
on Alan’s living conditions during college
in Almanac Singers
birth
concerts and radio performances
on father’s affection for Alan
government jobs
Lomax, Elizabeth
daughter’s birth and support
in Europe
fieldwork with Alan
marriage to Alan
marriage to Herbert Sturz
move to New York City
relationship with Alan after divorce
as writer
Lomax, James and Susan Frances
Lomax, John Avery
Adventures of a Ballad Hunter
American Ballads and Folk Songs
bank jobs
children
cowboy ballads, interest in collecting
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
death
education and academic positions
Folk Song U.S.A.
as lecturer
Library of Congress position
marriages
mental breakdown
Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly
Our Si
nging Country
prison songs, interest in collecting
relationship with Alan
“ ‘Sinful’ Songs of the Southern Negro,”
Lomax, John Jr.
Lomax, Shirley
London, University of
Long, Worth
Long Henry (prison singer)
Lord Invader
Losey, Joseph
Louisiana. See also New Orleans
Lowell, James Russell
Lowry, Peter
Lundy, Emmet
Lunsford, Bascom Lamar
Lyle, Cordelia
Lyttleton, Humphrey
MacArthur Foundation
Macbeth the Great
MacColl, Ewan
on Alan’s politics
ballad opera
folk festival planning
party for Alan
praise for Mister Jelly Roll
radio and recording projects
in skiffle band
as suspected subversive
MacDiarmid, Hugh
Machanofsky, Becky
MacLean, Calum and Sorley
MacLeish, Archibald
on Alan’s loyalty to country
contribution to Lomaxes’ book
as Librarian of Congress
Office of War Information (OWI) position
original radio drama
Macmillan Press
Macon, Uncle Dave
Macpherson, James
Maddox Brothers
Mahon, Jimmy
Mainer, J. E.
Mainer, Wade
Maitland, Dick
Manchester Ramblers
Mansell, Chris
Marchand, Antoinette. See Lomax, Antoinette “Toni”
March of Time news programs
Martin, David Stone
Martin, Fiddling Joe
Martins and the Coys, The (radio play)
Maxwell, Elsa
Mayo, Margot
McAdoo, David
McAllester, David
McCollum, Mother
McCormick, Mack
McCuen, Brad
McDowell, Annie Mae
McDowell, Fred
McGhee, Brownie
concerts and radio performances
film appearance
at Newport Folk Festival workshop
recordings
in skiffle band
McGhee, Stick
McIlhenny, E. A.
Mead, Margaret
on Alan’s enemies
on Alan’s leadership skills
on Alan’s scientific research
arrangement for Alan’s lecture
death and memorial service
political work
research findings
support for Alan’s work
Memphis Minnie
Memphis Slim (Peter Chatman)
Métraux, Alfred
Meyerhold, Vsevolod Emilievich
Michigan
military service. See Army, Alan’s service in
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Mitch
Mills, Susan
Mississippi. See also Fisk University/Library of Congress project
Mister Jelly Roll (A. Lomax)
Mitchell’s Christian Singers
Mitchum, Robert
Modern Language Association
Monroe, Bill
Montoya, Carlos
Moore, Johnny Lee
Morganfield, McKinley “Muddy Waters,”
