by John Szwed
Morton, Jelly Roll
Alan’s promotion of
background
commercial recordings
on history of jazz
illness and death
move to New York
oral history interviews
theatrical production based on
Washington night club
Moses, Norman J.
Mountain Frolic (A. Lomax)
Mountain Ramblers
Murderers’ Home (A. Lomax)
Murphy, Joseph S.
Musée de l’Homme (Paris)
Musical Quarterly
musical style. See vocal style
Music Genome
Musicraft Record Company
Mutual Broadcasting
Naimark, Michael
Napper, Betsy
Nashville State Penitentiary
Nataletti, Giorgio
National Book Critics Circle Award
National Defense Council
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
National Folk Festival
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
National Medal of the Arts
National Science Foundation
Nation magazine
Neff, Pat
Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly (J. Lomax and A. Lomax)
Negro Prison Songs from the Mississippi State Penitentiary (A. Lomax)
Neil, Edna
Nelson, Papa Big-Eye
Nelson, Ricky
Nelson, Sonny Boy
Neubauer, Peter
Never Without a Song (Newman)
New Criticism, The (Ransom)
New Deal
New Lost City Ramblers
Newman, Katherine Dealy
New Masses journal
New Orleans
Creole music
fieldwork
Jelly Roll Morton on
Newport Folk Festival and Newport Foundation
Newsweek
New York City, Alan’s work in
discography and collection project
fieldwork
folklore conference
offbeat cultural events
organizing of concerts
performances and lectures
radio programs
study and work plan
Town Hall concerts
visits during school years
New York Times articles and reviews
Alan’s second marriage
Alan’s talk on folk song families
Aunt Molly Jackson
Newport Folk Festival blues workshop
Southern Folk Heritage recordings
Theater Arts committee cabaret
Town Hall midnight concert
New York Times Magazine
Nicholas, Albert
Niles, Abbe
Niles, John Jacob
Nixa recording company
North Carolina
Nuovi Argomenti journal
Nye, Pearl R.
Odetta
Odum, Howard W.
Office of War Information (OWI)
Ohio Folk Festival
Oliver, Paul
operas, ballad
Orpheus Descending (Williams)
O’Sullivan, Marie
O’Sullivan, Sean
Our Singing Country (J. Lomax and A. Lomax)
Pace, Kelly
Page, Hot Lips
Paley, William
Pandora.com
Paramount Records
Parchman Farm Prison (Mississippi)
Paris
Parker, Charles
Parker, Dorothy
Parks, Gordon
Park Sheraton Hotel redecoration event
parlametrics
Partch, Harry
Patton, Charlie
Paulay, Forrestine
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Peel, Alfreda
Pehrson, Robert
Penguin Book of American Folk Songs (A. Lomax)
Pennsylvania, University of
Pennypacker, Henry
People’s Philharmonic Chorus
People’s Songs, Inc.
Percy, Thomas
Perl, Ed
Peter, Paul, and Mary
Philadelphia Independent
Pickow, George
pioneer songs
Pipes, William Harrison
Pittman, Sampson
Pitts, Lilla Belle
Polines, Revolie
Pollock, Jackson
pop music. See rock and roll
Poston, Elizabeth
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.
Prairie View State Normal College (Texas)
Pratcher, Miles
Pratt, Mose “Clear Rock,”
Preece, Harold
Presley, Elvis
Prestige Records
Price, Sammy
Priority Ramblers
prison conditions
prison songs
at Central Convict Sugar Plantation (Angola)
collection of
commercial recordings
disappearance of old style
at Imperial State Prison Farm, Texas
at Mississippi State Prison Farm
at Nashville State Penitentiary, Tennessee
Negro Prison Songs from the Mississippi State Penitentiary
at Parchman Farm, Mississippi
personal nature of
spirituals and hymns
topics
work songs
Promise, Martha. See Ledbetter, Martha
Pruner, Samuel
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
Public Health Service radio announcements
Pugh, Forrest City Joe
Purdue University
Putnam, Herbert
Pye Records
Queen, Sam Love, and Soco Gap Cherokee Indian dancers
Radio Audizione Italiane (RAI)
Radio France
radio programming. See also specific artists; specific programs
Radio Research Project, Library of Congress
Rahmings, Nat
Ramsey, Fred
Ramsey, Frederic, Jr.
Ransom, John Crowe
Ray, Nicholas
death and memorial service
film work
folk plays
Office of War Information (OWI) position
on popularization of television
radio program
Resettlement Administration position
on theatrical possibilities of radio
RCA Radio
RCA Records
Reagon, Bernice and Cordell
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
record companies. See commercial recordings; specific companies
Recorded Treasury of Black Folk Music (A. Lomax)
Reed, Susan
Reese, Dock
Reiser, R. H. “Doc,”
Republic National Bank of Dallas
Resettlement Administration, Department of Agriculture
Rex Foundation
Ribbins, Reverend
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Riddle, Almeda “Granny,”
Rinzler, Ralph
Ripley, Robert
Ritchie, Jean
autobiography
as folk singer
in Friends of Old Time Music
performances
Ritter, Tex
RKO film company
Roberts, Robin
Robertson, Sidney
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Bill
Robinson, Earl
rock and roll
Rockefeller, Nelson
Rockefeller Foundation
Rogers, Will
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rosen, Paul
Rossel
lini, Roberto
Rotolo, Carla
Rouget, Gilbert
Rounder Records
Rounders
Rourke, Constance
Rubin, Ruth
Ruby (blues guitarist)
Rudd, Roswell
Rudneva, Anna
Russell, Pee Wee
Russell, William
Sachs, Curt
Sacred Harp music
Sagan, Carl
Salt of the Earth book proposal
Sampson, Black
Sandburg, Carl
Satherley, Art
Saturday Review
Schneider, Marius
Schneyer, Helen
Scotland
Scott, Sir Walter
Scruggs, Earl
Seabrook, William
Sea Island Folk Festival
Sea Island Singers
Seeger, Charles
on authenticity in folk singing
in Composers Collective
composition based on folk music
as consultant to Archive of American Folk Song
on copyright of folk songs
as editor for Lomaxes’ book
on hillbilly music
opinions and reviews of Alan’s work
Resettlement Administration position
song arrangements
support for Alan’s world music project
as White House entertainment organizer
Seeger, Mike
Seeger, Peggy
Seeger, Pete
as Alan’s assistant
as alleged subversive
book of protest and workers’ songs
concerts
film appearance
on folk music revival
on Lomaxes’ argument
Newport Folk Festival involvement
People’s Songs project
praise for Alan’s book
radio performances
on regional cultural resources
singing groups
with Henry Wallace campaign tour
Seeger, Ruth Crawford
Selah Jubilee Singers
sexuality
in British folk songs
in Haitian dance
vocal style and
Sharp, Cecil
Shelton, Robert
Siegmeister, Elie
Simeon, Omer
Simpson, George E.
Sinatra, Frank
“ ‘Sinful’ Songs of the Southern Negro” (A. Lomax)
“ ‘Sinful’ Songs of the Southern Negro” (J. Lomax)
singing style. See vocal style
Singleton, Zutty
Sing Out! magazine
skiffle music
Smith, Charles Edward
Smith, Eddie
Smith, Elmer
Smith, Harry
Smith, Henry Lee
Smith, Hobart
Smith, Preston
Smithers Plantation (Texas)
Smithsonian Folk Festival
Snow, Kilby
Soileau, Leo
Soileau and Robin
Song Hunter (television program)
Son House
Soul Stirrers
South. See specific states
Southern Folk Heritage (A. Lomax and Collins)
Southern Journey (A. Lomax)
Southern Regions of the United States (Odum)
Southwest Review
Soviet Union
Space, Granny
space program music selections
Spain
Spalding, Isaac
spirituals and hymns. See prison songs: sprituals and hymns
Spivacke, Harold
on Alan’s proposals and projects
arrangements for commercial recordings
on funding shortages
Library of Congress position
recommendation of Alan as event planner
St. John, George
Stafford, Jo
State Department
Steinbeck, John
Still, William Grant
Stokes, Sammy
Stone of Tory, The (A. Lomax)
Stoney Mountain Boys
Stovepipe, Sweet Papa
Strand, Paul
Strickland, Napoleon
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Sturz, Herbert
style. See dance and movement; vocal style
Sumac, Yma
Swan Silvertones
Taggart, Blind Joe
Taubman, Howard
Taylor, Archer
Taylor, Billy
Taylor, Davidson
Taylor, Earl
Taylor, Glen
Teffyteller, Ralph
television programming. See also specific programs
Tennessee Ramblers
Tennessee Valley Authority
Terkel, Studs
Terrill, Ruby
Terrill School for Boys (Texas)
Terry, Sonny
concerts and radio performances
film appearance
recordings
skiffle music
Texas
Texas, University of. See University of Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Folklore Society
Tharpe, Sister Rosetta
Theatre Arts Committee (TAC)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)
Thibault, Conrad
This I Remember (E. Roosevelt)
Thomas, Jean
Thompson, Harold
Thompson, Robert Farris
Thompson, Stith
Thomson, Virgil
3000 Years of Black Poetry (A. Lomax and Abdul)
Time magazine
Tobacco Road (play)
To Hear Your Banjo Play (film)
Torner, Eduardo
Tough Eye (prison singer)
Town Hall (New York)
Tradition Records
Trager, Edith
Trager, George
Transatlantic Call (radio program)
Travis, Merle
Treasury of Southern Folklore, A (Botkin)
Truvillion, Henry
Tugwell, Rexford
Turner, Big Joe
UNESCO
Union Boys
United Artists
United Federal Workers union
University of Chicago
University of London
University of Pennsylvania
University of Texas
Alan at
John Lomax at
Ursa Riu, Don Juan
Valdés, Miguelito
Vance, John
Van Doren, Mark
Van Dyke, Willard
Van Ronk, Dave
Varieteers
Vermont
Village Vanguard
Vinson, R. E.
Virginia
Vocalion Records
vocal style
in analysis and classification of folk songs
cantometrics
coding and classification system
cultural and social patterns of
impact of audio recording on
in jazz
in Mediterranean singing
parlametrics
redundancy of pitch and stress
in southern black versus white singing
vowel preference pattern
von Hornbostel, Erich
Vorse, Mary Heaton
Vowell, Pauline
Voyager I and II
Walker, Frank
Walker, Jack
Wallace, Henry
Ward, Uncle Wade
Warner, Frank
wartime. See World War II
Washington, Isaac
Washington Daily News
Washington Post
Waters, Ethel
Waters, Muddy
Watson, Doc
Watts, Wilmer, and the Lonely Eagles
Weavers
&nbs
p; Weill, Kurt
Wein, George
Weisner, Jerry
Welles, Orson
Weltfish, Gene
Wendell, Barrett
West Indies
Westminster Records
Wetherald, R. P.
Wheatstraw, Nick (Alexis Korner)
White, Bukka
White, Josh
as alleged subversive
concerts
Newport Folk Festival workshop
radio performances
recordings
White, Newman I.
White House
Whiteman, Paul
Whitfield, Irène Thérèse
Wiesner, Jerome
Wiggins, James “Boodle It,”
Williams, Billy
Williams, J. Mayo “Ink,”
Williams, Tennessee
Williamson, Sonny Boy (John Lee Curtis)
Wilson, August
Wilson, Edmund
Wilson, Woodrow
Winston, George Taylor
Wirkus, Faustin
Wolfe, George C.
Wood, Anna Lomax. See Lomax, Anne (Anna) Lyttleton
Work, John
Work, John Wesley, Jr.
work songs
in Ireland
of lumberjacks
of prisoners
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
World Library of Folk and Primitive Music (A. Lomax)
World’s Fair (1939)
World Video film company
World War II
Alan’s military service and projects
Armed Forces Radio Service
Dear Mr. President radio programs
end of
Library of Congress programs
Office of War Information
Pearl Harbor attack
White House tribute to troops
World Wide song publishing company
WPA (Works Progress Administration)
Wright, Richard
Writers’ Committee
Writers’ Congress, Third Annual
Young, Ed
Young, Izzy
Young, Lonnie
Your Ballad Man (radio program)
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