| Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942 Contributor(s): Work, John W. (Author), Jones, Lewis Wade (Author), Adams, Samuel C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826514855 ISBN-13: 9780826514851 Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press OUR PRICE: $62.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2005 Annotation: African-American scholars from Fisk University and the Library of Congress conducted a study in 1941-42 on the culture and music of the black community of the Mississippi Delta. Long thought to have been lost, this study has been recovered and includes 160 song transcriptions. (Music) |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Ethnomusicology - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
| Dewey: 305.896 |
| LCCN: 2004029428 |
| Physical Information: 1.31" H x 7.36" W x 10.38" (1.94 lbs) 360 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Mississippi River Basin - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Blues Hall of Fame Inductee--Named a "Classic of Blues Literature" by the Blues Foundation, 2019 This remarkable book recovers three invaluable perspectives, long thought to have been lost, on the culture and music of the Mississippi Delta. In 1941 and '42 African American schol-ars 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. Illustrated with photos and more than 160 musical transcriptions. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jones, Lewis Wade: - Lewis Wade Jones (1910-1979) was an instructor in the Department of Social Sciences at Fisk University from 1932 to 1942, where he worked closely with Charles S. Johnson. In 1949 the two co-wrote A Statistical Analysis of Southern Counties: Shifts in the Negro Population of Alabama. After leaving Fisk, Jones moved to the Tuskegee Institute School of Education, where he was a professor of sociology. |