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Lost Delta found
rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County study, 1941-1942
By Work, John & Adams, Samuel Hopkins & Jones, Lewis E. & Samuel C., Jr Adams & Gordon, Robert & Nemerov, Bruce
- ISBN
- 978-0-82651-485-1
- Publisher
- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2005.
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Reviewed on August 15, 2005
In April 1940, a fire ripped through a dancehall in Natchez, MS, killing 200 people and forever scarring the minds and bodies of the survivors. Fisk University musicologist Work proposed a fieldwork project in the Delta to record the musical reactions to this catastrophe. Having already built a notable private collection of Negro call-and-response singing in east Tennessee, he seemed like the perfect choice. Through a series of events, Work lost control of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
