Lost Delta found
Subtitle: rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County study, 1941-1942
By: John W. Work, Lewis Wade Jones, and Samuel C. Adams ; edited by Robert Gordon and Bruce Nemerov.
Contributors: Jones, Lewis Wade, 1910-; Adams, Samuel C.; Gordon, Robert, 1961-; Nemerov, Bruce.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Nashville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: African Americans -- Mississippi -- Coahoma County -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; African Americans -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; African Americans -- Mississippi -- Coahoma County -- Music; Blues (Music) -- Mississippi -- Coahoma County; Gospel music -- Mississippi -- Coahoma County; African Americans -- Mississippi -- Coahoma County -- Folklore; African Americans -- Mississippi -- Coahoma County -- Religion; Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Coahoma County (Miss.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Coahoma County (Miss.) -- Religious life and customs
Genres: Music.; Folklore.
Description: When the Alan Lomax text "The Land Where the Blues Began" was published in 1993, the project study of 1941 and 1942 visits to the Mississippi Delta contained inaccuracies and ignored social issues. Here Robert Gordon uncovers the work of Fisk University's African American scholars who accompanied him: composer and musicologist John W. Work, sociologist Lewis Wade Jones, and graduate student Samuel C. Adams, Jr. These three men captured interviews, notes, and musical transcriptions that reveal an important alternative perspective on Lomax's work in the Delta region. Their work unveils place, religion, social justice issues, and a way of life that is woven into a rich musical heritage.
Table of contents: title: The Mississippi Delta / by Lewis W. Jones; title: John work's untitled manuscript; title: John work's music transcriptions; title: Changing Negro life in the Delta / by Samuel C. Adams.