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The Song Hunter: How Alan Lomax saved the sounds of America

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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The Lomax Collection

"Everybody is music and music is in everybody," says Row Here Coppers. Alan Lomax was a Robin Hood-like figure who stood for the normal people of America. He too found a rich world of tradition and music played by normal people. "It's real people singing even if it's not completely in tune you know or it's not produced."

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