
Lost Delta Found
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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 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 mission was "to document adequately the cultural and social backgrounds for music in the community." Among the fruits of the project were the earliest recordings by the legendary blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters.
The hallmark of the study was to have been a joint publication of its findings by Fisk and the Library of Congress. While this publication was never completed, Lost Delta Found is composed 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 traditions as they existed in the 1940s.
Illustrated with photos and more than 160 musical transcriptions.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Manuscripts
- Introduction to Delta Manuscripts
- "The Mississippi Delta" by Lewis W. Jones
- Editors' Introduction
- I: The Delta
- II: The River and the Levee
- III: The Pioneers
- John Work's Untitled Manuscript
- Editors' Introduction
- Part I: Untitled Manuscript
- Chapter I: The Church
- Chapter II: The Music of the Church
- Chapter III: The Sermon
- Chapter IV: The Folk-Quartet
- Part II: Saturday: Gambling in the Delta
- Chapter V: Secular Music
- Chapter VI: The Instruments
- Chapter VII: Social Songs
- Chapter VIII: Ballads
- Chapter IX: The Work Songs
- Chapter X: Children's Game Songs
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Classified Index
- John Work's Music Transcriptions
- "Changing Negro Life in the Delta" by Samuel C. Adams
- Editors' Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter I: Introduction
- Chapter II: Social Change in the Delta
- Chapter III: Negro Religious Life in Transition
- Chapter IV: Changing Folk Tales and Folk Songs
- Chapter V: The Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Appendixes
- Appendix A: Family Schedule and General Musical Questionnaire (Folk Culture Study)
- Appendix B: Conflict and Adjustment
- Appendix C: Interview with Ola Perkins
- Appendix D: Interview with Albert Williams Jr.
- Appendix E: Interview with Joe Cal
- Appendixes
- Appendix 1: A Spark in Natchez
- Appendix 2: A Memorandum about the July Trip to Coahoma County Functional Approach to the Study of Folklore
- Appendix 3: Report on Preliminary Work in Clarksdale, Mississippi by Samuel Adams and Ulysses Young. Oct. 26, 1941.
- Appendix 4: Memorandum to Charles S. Johnson from Lewis W. Jones
- Appendix 5: List of Records on Machines in Clarksdale Amusement Places
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index of Transcriptions
- General Index
- Author Biographies
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