From the Archives: Where would we be today without Alan Lomax? Well take a look back this hour at the life of one of America’s greatest champions of music and folk culture with Columbia University professor of music and jazz studies, John Szwed. His new biography is “Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World” […]

Where would we be today without Alan Lomax? Well take a look back this hour at the life of one of America’s greatest champions of music and folk culture with Columbia University professor of music and jazz studies, John Szwed. His new biography is “Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World” (Viking, 2011).