Autore: Dal Lago, Alessandro
Titolo: Tutti i canti del mondo. Alan Lomax dal blues all'etnografia globale della musica
Periodico: Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa
Anno: 2012 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 423 - Pagina finale: 442

Alan Lomax (1915-2002) was a well known (at least in the United States) researcherin the field of ethnomusicology, albeit almost ignored by European scholars. Inthe Thirties he carried out pioneering work on black music and culture in the MississippiDelta. Deeply influenced by his father, a self-taught folklore scholar, hetraveled intensively across the southern States recording thousands of hours ofsongs. His research goes far beyond the field of ethnomusicology though. Indeed,he explored the deep social meaning of black music as represented by the blues.In his seminal book The Land where the Blues Began, he claimed that blues revealsboth the African roots and the present oppressed condition of Black people.This article summarizes Lomax's contribution to contemporary ethnographic research(including his ethnomusicological journeys to Italy and other countries duringthe Fifties) and discusses his late work on «cantometrics», a controversial attemptto map the global production of folk music on the basis of aesthetic and socialvariables.




SICI: 1973-3194(2012)3<423:TICDMA>2.0.ZU;2-A
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