It takes the average reader 7 hours and 30 minutes to read Alan Lomax by John F. Szwed
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Folklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who introduced folk music to the masses. Lomax began his career making field recordings of rural music for the Library of Congress and by the late 1930s brought his discoveries to radio, including Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Burl Ives. By the 1940s he was producing concerts that brought white and black performers together, and in the 1950s he set out to record the whole world. Lomax was also controversial. When...
Alan Lomax by John F. Szwed is 450 pages long, and a total of 112,500 words.
This makes it 152% the length of the average book. It also has 137% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 14 minutes to read Alan Lomax aloud.
Alan Lomax is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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