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Title: Lost Delta Found
Condition: New
Subtitle: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942
EAN: 9780826514868
ISBN: 9780826514868
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 30/04/2020
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 254mm
Item Length: 178mm
Item Weight: 650g
Author: Lewis Wade Jones, Samuel C. Adams Jr., John W. Work
Contributor: Robert Gordon (Edited by), Bruce Nemerov (Edited by)
Genre: History
Topic: Music Dance & Theatre, Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Language & Reference
Item Width: 19mm
Release Year: 2020

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