Lost Delta Found : Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942 (9780826514868)

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In 1941 and '42 African American scholars from Fisk University-among them the noted composer and musicologist John W. Work III, sociologist Lewis Wade Jones, and graduate student Samuel C. Adams Jr.-joined folklorist Alan Lomax of the Library of Congress on research trips to Coahoma County, Mississippi. Their mission was "to document adequately the cultural and social backgrounds for music in the community." Among the fruits of the project were the earliest recordings by the legendary blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. The hallmark of the study was to have been a joint publication of its findings by Fisk and the Library of Congress. While this publication was never completed, Lost Delta Found is composed of the writings, interviews, notes, and musical transcriptions produced by Work, Jones, and Adams in the Coahoma County study. Their work captures, with compelling immediacy, a place, a people, a way of life, and a set of rich musical traditions as they existed in the 1940s.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 360 pages
• Dimensions 178 x 254 x 19.05mm | 625.96g
• Publication date 15 May 2020
• Publisher Vanderbilt University Press
• Publication City/Country Tennessee, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 129 black & white photos
• ISBN10 0826514863
• ISBN13 9780826514868
• Bestsellers rank 991,106

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