![]() ![]() ![]() He advocated what he called ''cultural equity: the right of every culture to have equal time on the air and equal time in the classroom.'' In a career that carried him from fishermen's shacks and prison work farms to television studios and computer consoles, he strove to protect folk traditions from the homogenizing effects of modern media. Lomax wasn't interested in simply discovering stars. He did whatever was necessary to preserve traditional music and take it to a wider audience.Īlthough some of those he recorded would later become internationally famous, Mr. Lomax was a musicologist, author, disc jockey, singer, photographer, talent scout, filmmaker, concert and recording producer and television host. Alan Lomax, the legendary collector of folk music who was the first to record towering figures like Leadbelly, Muddy Waters and Woody Guthrie, died yesterday at a nursing home in Sarasota, Fla. ![]()
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