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

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

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0826514863 ISBN 13 : 9780826514868

Editeur : Vanderbilt University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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 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.

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, Lost Delta Found 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.

Illustrated with photos and more than 160 musical transcriptions.

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À propos de l?auteur

John W. Work III (1901-1966) was a gifted composer and educator. One of the first African American academics to argue the value of African American folk music, he preserved this heritage both in his book, American Negro Songs and Spirituals, and through his work with the Fisk Jubilee Singers, which he directed from 1947 until 1956. He retired from Fisk University in 1966.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vanderbilt University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826514863
• ISBN 13: 9780826514868
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Éditeur: Gordon Robert, Nemerov Bruce
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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