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

John W. Work III; Lewis Wade Jones; Samuel C. Adams Jr.; Robert Gordon (Editor); Bruce Nemerov (Editor); John W. Work; Samuel C. Adams

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 Univ...