Last Cavalier: The Life and Times of John A. Lomax, 1867-1948University of Illinois Press, 1996 - 580 pages Last Cavalier is the never-before-told story of Lomax's long career, as colorful and lively as it was controversial. The book chronicles how this native Mississippian (although Lomax emphatically considered himself a Texan, having come to that state with his family as a child) collected folksongs on horseback, sold stocks and bonds, served at several major universities, lectured nationwide on many occasions, published a dozen books, helped legitimize comparative literature as an academic discipline, and played a major role in developing the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song, now part of the American Folklife Center. This first full account of Lomax's life relies on eight years of research through the Lomax family letters and papers and many interviews with those who knew him. |
Contents
Lone Star Trail | 1 |
PURSUIT OF THE VISION | 5 |
Texian Boys 186787 | 7 |
Hard Times in the Country 188795 | 20 |
The Highly Educated Man 189597 | 33 |
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies 189799 | 50 |
Trouble Trouble 18991903 | 68 |
EXILE AND RETURN | 85 |
HIGH ROADS HARD ROADS | 271 |
Johnny Wont You Ramble? 1932 | 273 |
Hallelujah Bum Again 193233 | 288 |
Wedlock 193334 | 309 |
Prison Moan 1934 | 329 |
Yankee Doodle 1935 | 345 |
Rambled the Country Early and Late 193536 | 363 |
TWILIGHTS LAST GLEAMING | 381 |
Married Me a Wife 19034 | 87 |
The Boston Come AllYe 19046 | 101 |
The Highly Educated Man Part 2 19067 | 113 |
John Was AWritin 190710 | 127 |
Git Along Little Dogies 191011 | 145 |
ONE MANS FAMILY | 159 |
Man on the Flying Trapeze 191115 | 161 |
Long Summer Day 1915 | 181 |
Hell in Texas 191517 | 195 |
Goodbye Old Paint 191719 | 217 |
More Hell in Texas 191925 | 231 |
Fare Thee Well Babe 192532 | 253 |
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Last Cavalier: The Life and Times of John A. Lomax, 1867-1948 Nolan Porterfield Limited preview - 1996 |
Last Cavalier: The Life and Times of John A. Lomax, 1867-1948 Nolan Porterfield No preview available - 1996 |
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