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

Blues Hall of Fame Inductee, 2019 - A "Classic of Blues Literature" 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.

General

Imprint:	Vanderbilt University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2020
Authors:	John W. Work • Lewis Wade Jones • Samuel C. Adams Jr.
Editors:	Robert Gordon • Bruce Nemerov
Dimensions:	254 x 178mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	360
ISBN-13:	978-0-8265-1486-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > Library & information services Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Blues Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Blues Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
LSN:	0-8265-1486-3
Barcode:	9780826514868

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