{"id":51669,"date":"2024-09-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/?p=51669"},"modified":"2024-10-15T16:29:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T21:29:19","slug":"texas-folklore-society-tarleton-state-host-the-lomax-on-lomax-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/texas-folklore-society-tarleton-state-host-the-lomax-on-lomax-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Folklore Society, Tarleton State Host \u2018The Lomax on Lomax Show\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 The Texas Folklore Society (TFS) and Tarleton State University\u2019s Department of English and Languages will host John Lomax III, grandson of TFS co-founder and pioneering musicologist John Avery Lomax at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10 in the O.A. Grant Humanities Building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Admission to the show is free and will tell the story of four generations of the family, who have found, recorded, preserved, promoted and presented unique American music for over 140 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI sing some of the best known of the cowboy songs John Avery Lomax discovered as well as selections by my father, John Avery Lomax Jr., Uncle Alan and Aunt Bess Lomax Hawes,\u201d Lomax III, 80, said of the solo, acapella show. \u201cI talk about the songs, the circumstances of their discovery and I mention the work of some of the lesser-known Lomax family members.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Avery Lomax and his son Alan obtained more than 17,000 field recordings of American songs, stories, church services, narratives and children\u2019s play-party games that became the basis of the American Folk Song Archive in the Library of Congress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collectively, the Lomax family has produced 52 books, dating from John Avery Lomax\u2019s 1910 \u201cCowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads\u201d to Anna Lomax Wood\u2019s \u201cSongs of Earth\u201d published in June 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The performance will bring Lomax III close to the old family homestead in Bosque County, near Meridian. The Lomax family arrived in Texas from Mississippi by covered wagon in 1869 and settled on a small farm near the Chisolm Trail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTexas Folklore Society is thrilled to honor the Lomax legacy by bringing John Lomax III and the family\u2019s story to Stephenville,\u201d said Texas Folklore Society Executive Director Kristina Downs. \u201cTheirs is a story rich with folklore and history and at the heart of our mission to collect, preserve, and share the customs and traditions of the people of Texas and the Southwest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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