Bess Lomax Hawes
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American folk musician and folklorist
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- Bachelors English Harvard University
- Masters Folklore University of California, Berkeley
- PhD Folklore University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bess Lomax Hawes was an American folk musician, folklorist, and researcher. She was the daughter of John Avery Lomax and Bess Bauman-Brown Lomax, and the sister of Alan Lomax and John Lomax Jr. Early life and education Born in Austin, Texas, Bess grew up learning folk music from a very early age, since her father, a former English professor and twice president of the American Folklore Society, was Honorary Curator of American folk song at the Library of Congress from 1935 to 1948. As a child, she excelled at classical piano, under the tutelage of her mother, and later she learned to play the guitar.
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