Lost Delta Found – Rediscovering the Fisk University–Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941–1942
Language: English
Published by Vanderbilt Univ Pr, 2020
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- Title
- Lost Delta Found – Rediscovering the Fisk University–Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941–1942
- Author
- Work, John W./ Jones, Lewis Wade/ Adams, Samuel C., Jr./ Gordon, Robert (Editor)/ Nemerov, Bruce (Editor)
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt Univ Pr
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- Brand New
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0826514863
- ISBN 13
- 9780826514868
- Item weight
- 0.66 kilograms
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.
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About the Author
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. After receiving his master's degree from Fisk University.
Samuel C. Adams Jr. (1920-2001) attended the University of Chicago, where he received his PhD in 1953. He had a long and distinguished career in public service, highlighted by his appointment to the post of Ambassador to the Republic of Niger in 1968-1969.
Robert Gordon is a writer and Emmy Award–winning filmmaker. His most recent book is Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown.
Bruce Nemerov has been, variously, a musician, radio and record producer, and writer. He was awarded a Grammy for the notes to John W. Work III: Recording Black Culture, an album of Work's field recordings.
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