Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942

by John W. Work, Samuel C Adams Jr, Lewis Wade Jones

Book Overview

Blues Hall of Fame Inductee--Named a "Classic of Blues Literature" by the Blues Foundation, 2019

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 schol-ars from Fisk University--among them the noted composer and musicologist John W. Work III, sociologist Lewis Wade Jones, and graduate student Samuel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826514863
• ISBN13: 9780826514868
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"