Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942
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By John W. Work III, Lewis Wade Jones, Samuel C. Adams Jr., Robert Gordon (Editor), Bruce Nemerov (Editor)
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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 scholars from Fisk Universityamong 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...
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 scholars from Fisk Universityamong 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...






















