{"product_id":"9780826514868","title":"Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942","description":"\u003cb\u003eBlues Hall of Fame Inductee-Named a \"Classic of Blues Literature\" by the Blues Foundation, 2019\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This remarkable book recovers three invaluable perspectives, long thought to have been lost, on the culture and music of the Mississippi Delta. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 mis-sion was \"to document adequately the cul-tural and social backgrounds for music in the community.\" Among the fruits of the project were the earliest recordings by the legendary blues singer and guitar-ist Muddy Waters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The hallmark of the study was to have been a joint publica-tion of its findings by Fisk and the Library of Congress. While this publication was never completed, \u003ci\u003eLost Delta Found\u003c\/i\u003e is com-posed 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 tra-ditions as they existed in the 1940s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Illustrated with photos and more than 160 musical transcriptions.","brand":"Vanderbilt University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008131612912,"sku":"9780826514868","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780826514868","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}