![]() ![]() It began with an introduction by President Theodore Roosevelt. In nineteen ten he published a book called "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads." It contained not only the words to songs but some of the music as well. His interest in cowboy music led him to research and collect examples of cowboy songs. ![]() He came from the state of Mississippi but grew up in Texas. John Avery Lomax was born in eighteen sixty-seven. Today we have the first of two programs about how the Lomax family helped keep American folk music from being lost. Lomax is a name well known to historians of American musical culture. ![]() Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. How the Lomax Family Helped Save American Folk Music, Part 1Äownload MP3 (Right-click or option-click the link.)
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