Library of Congress/Fisk University Mississippi Delta collection
By: collected by Alan Lomax for the Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress, and by members of the Fisk University faculty
Contributors: Archive of Folk Song (U.S.); Fisk University
Published: 1941
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Railroads; Tales; Spirituals (Songs); Religious life and customs; Gospel music; Music; Songs and music .; Blues (Music); Work songs; Correspondence; Social life and customs; Religion; Field recordings; Folklore; African Americans; African American children's games
Other titles: Fisk University Mississippi Delta collection; Mississippi Delta collection
Description: The collection consists of a portion of the materials generated by a joint field project undertaken by Alan Lomax, head of the Archive of American Folksong at the Library of Congress, and Fisk University faculty members including Charles S. Johnson, John W. Work, and Lewis Wade Jones in 1941 and 1942. The collection includes correspondence related to the planning of the project. Field recordings were made of secular and religious music, sermons, childrens' games, jokes, folktales, interviews, and dances documenting the folk culture of an African American community in Coahoma County, Mississippi.
Notes: The videocassette in this collection is a copy of motion picture footage taken by Alan Lomax during his research in 1942 and documents children's games and blues perfomer Charles Edwards.

The computer disk contains a searchable database of the recordings and manuscripts found in the collection.

The Library of Congress/Fisk University Mississippi Delta collection, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Duplication of the recorded materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.

Collection guide available in the Folklife Reading Room and online via the American Folklife Center web pages.