Biblio-filmo-discographie sélective d’Alan Lomax2
Livres
1934 [1994], American Ballads and Folk Songs (avec John A. Lomax). New York: Dover Publications, 672 p.
1936, Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Leadbelly (avec John A. Lomax). New York: The Macmillan Company, 242 p.
1937 [1938], Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads revised and enlarged ((avec John A. Lomax). New York: The Macmillan Company, 431 p.
1941 [2000], Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads (avec John A. Lomax). New York: Dover Publications, 464 p.
1942, American Folksong and Folklore: A Regional Bibliography (avec Sidney R. Crowell). Reprint Services, 62 p.
1946, Best Loved American Folk Songs (Folk Songs : USA) (avec John A. Lomax). New York: Grossest and Dunlap, 407 p.
1950 [2001], Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and « Inventor of Jazz » (dessins de David Stone Martin). Berkeley: University of California Press, 368 p.
1955, Harriet and Her Harmonium (illustré par Pearl Binder, musique arrangée par Robert Gill). London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 48 p.
1959, The Rainbow Sign. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pierce.
1960 [1975], The Folk Songs of North America (avec mélodies et accords de guitare transcrits par Peggy Seeger : arrangements pour piano par Matyas Seiber et Don Banks; illustré par Michael Leonard). Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday/Dolphin, 619 p. + Index.
1962, The Leadbelly Songbook (Moses Asch et Alan Lomax ed.). New York: Oak Publications, 96 pp.
1967 [1999], Hard-Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People (Alan Lomax, Woody Guthrie et Peter Seeger). Bison Books/University of Nebraska Press, 376 p.
1968, Folk Song Style and Culture. Washington DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science (Publ. nr 88), 363 p.
1969 [1971], 3000 Years of Black Poetry (avec Raoul Abdul). New York: Dodd Mead Company.
1977, Cantometrics: A Method of Musical Anthropology (audio-cassettes and guide). Berkeley: University of California Media Extension Center.
1993, Land Where the Blues Began. New York: Random House, 256 p.
1997, Brown Girl in the Ring: An Anthology of Song Games from the Eastern Caribbean (avec J. D. Elder et Bess Lomax Hawes). New York: Pantheon Books, 256 p.
Articles
1959, « Folk Song Style ». American Anthropologist 61/6.
1962, « Song Structure and Social Structure ». Ethnology I/4.
1964, « Phonotacique de Chant Populaire » (avec Edith Crowell Trager). L’Homme, janvier-avril.
1967a, « Special Features of Sung Communication ». In Essay on the Verbal and Visual Arts, Proceedings of the 1966 Annual Spring Meeting, American Ethnological Society, University of Washington Press,.
1967b, « The Good and the Beautiful in Folksong ». Journal of American Folklore, juillet-septembre.
1972a, « Choreometrics and Ethnographic Filmmaking: Toward an Ethnographic Film Archive ». Filmmakers Newsletter 4/4.
1972b, « The Evolutionary Taxonomy of Culture ». Science 177 : 228-239.
1973, « Cinema, Science, and Cultural Renewal ». Current Anthropology 14 : 474-80.
1977a, « A Worldwide Evolutionary Classification of Cultures by Subsistence Systems » (avec Conrad Arensburg). Current Anthropology 18 : 659-708.
1977b, « Factors in Speaking Styles ». Language and Society 6 : 15-36.
1980, « The Language of Song ». In Stanley Diamond ed.: Papers in Honor of Gene Weltfish. Mouton.
1990, « Singing: A Review of World Song Styles ». Encyclopedia Britanica, 15th ed.
1995, « Cross-Cultural Factors in Phonological Change ». Language and Society 2 : 161-75.
Inédit, « World Dance and Movement Style » (avec Forrestine Paulay).
Films3
1945, To Hear My Banjo Play (script; Willard Van Dyke, director). Office of War Information.
1951, Oss, Oss Wee Oss (script et direction avec Peter Kennedy et George Pickow). English Folk Dance Society.
1976-1986, The Choreometric Films/The Movement Style and Culture Series (script, direction et production, avec Forrestine Paulay): Dance and Human History ((1976); Step Style (1980); Palm Play (1980); The Longest Trail (1986). Berkeley: University of California Extension Media Center.
1985, The Land Where the Blues Began (script, direction et production). The American Patchwork PBS.
Disques
1939, Negro Sinful Songs Performed by Leadbelly, the first commercial album of American folk songs. Musicraft.
1940a [1964], Dustbowl Ballads Performed by Woody Guthrie. Elektra Records box set EKL-271/272.
1940b, The Midnight Special Songs of Texas prisons, performed by Leadbelly and the Golden Gate Quartet. Victor.
1941, Music and Interviews with Jelly Roll Morton, 12 vols., the first recorded biography of a jazz musician. The Library of Congress: Jelly Roll Morton Series.
s.d., Folk Songs of the United States, 5 vols., a survey of the field recordings in the Archive of American Folk Songs.
s.d. , American Sea Songs and Shanties. 2 vols. (enregistrements de terrain des années 1930-40). The Library of Congress, LCM-1891.
1953, Folk Songs of Spain. 11 vols. The World Library of Folk and Primitive Music.
1955, Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music. 18 vols. Columbia Records.
1959a, Heather and Glen: Songs and Melodies of Highland and Lowland Scotland (avec Calum McLean et Hamish Henderson, 1950-51). Tradition Records TLP 1047.
1959b, Southern Journey. 12 vols. Prestige Recording Company.
1959c, Negro Prison Songs Field recordings from Mississippi (1947). Tradition Records.
1960, Southern Folk Heritage. 7 vols. Atlantic Records.
1961, Folk Songs of Great Britain. 10 vols. (enregistrements avec Peter Kennedy, 1950-59). Cademon. Topic. vol. 1: Songs Of Courtship; vol. 2: Songs Of Seduction; vol. 3: Jack Of All Trades; vol. 4: The Child Ballads 1; vol. 5: The Child Ballads 2; vol. 6: Sailormen And Servingmaids; vol. 7: Fair Game And Foul; vol. 8: A Soldiers Life For Me; vol. 9: Songs Of Ceremony; vol. 10: Songs Of Animals And Other Marvels.
1977, The Gospel Ship: Baptist Hymns and White Spirituals from the Southern Mountains. New World Records.
1993, Sounds of the South. 4 CD (réédition partielle de Southern Journey et Southern Folk Heritage). Atlantic.