Lost Delta Found

<b>Blues Hall of Fame Inductee-Named a Classic of Blues Literature by the Blues Foundation 2019</b><br> <br> This remarkable book recovers three invaluable perspectives long thought to have been lost on the culture and music of the Mississippi Delta.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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 <i>Lost Delta Found</i> 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.<br> <br> <br> Illustrated with photos and more than 160 musical transcriptions.