Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (511 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826514855 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 316 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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The hallmark of the study was to have been a joint publication of its findings by Fisk and the Library of Congress. Adams, Jr.--joined folklorist Alan Lomax of the Library of Congress on research trips to Coahoma County, Mississippi. Lomax's own book drawing on the project’s findings, The Land Where the Blues Began, did not appear until 1993, and although it won a National Book Critics Circle Award, it was flawed by a number of historical inaccuracies.Recently uncovered by author and filmmaker Robert Gordon, the writings, interviews, notes, and musical transcriptions produced by Work, Jones, and Adams in the Coahoma County study now appear in print for the first time. Now, at last, the voices of the other contributors can be heard.Including essays by Bruce Nemerov and Gordon on the careers and contributions of Work, Jones, and Adams, Lost Delta Found will become an indispensable historical resource, as marvelously readable as it is enlightening.Illustrated with photos and more than 160 musical transcriptions.. Their work captures,
Although a joint Fisk–Library of Congress publication was originally planned, the once-lost Fisk manuscripts have never seen print until now. Work's 160 song transcriptions of 1941–1942 field recordings form the 100-page centerpiece of this book, and equally illuminating are insightful essays by the Fisk trio on plantation folklore and traditions, already fading at that time as urban influences permeated the Mississippi Delta. (Aug. All rights reserved. More than a few editorial comments hint at the conflicts involving Lomax: "That the manuscripts were found in the Lomax archives six decades after they went missing may reveal much about how research is, and is not, shared, attributed, and published." Photos. Lomax, however, made scant mention
the songs Andrew Calhoun To read some of these reviews, you'd think the introduction to the material was more important than the substance of the book - source material, copies of many previously unpublished songs in John Work's own handwriting, an essay that gives you the pulse and taste of life in the delta in 1941. "Down by the Green Apple Tree," a children's song collected from Sarah Teague, is worth the price of the book. I'm grateful to everyone who collected the song. "Crucial for anyone dealing with race, with blues, with Lomax" according to Tony Thomas. Nemerov and Gordon have done an immense service to the scholarship of blues, to the scholarship of race in scholarship itself, to the understanding of Black music. This book helps us understand rather than the beneficient and hallowed benefactors of African Americans he liked to picture himself, Alan Lomax perpetuated the same racism and paternalism that has been a halmark of white scholarship of African Americans since this country began. The trips. M. B. Allen said Lost Delta Assassinated. An edition of the writings of the joint Fisk University-Library of Congress Cohahoma project undertaken in the 19Lost Delta Assassinated M. B. Allen An edition of the writings of the joint Fisk University-Library of Congress Cohahoma project undertaken in the 1940s is long overdue and would have been most welcome. Unfortunately, Lost Delta Found is sloppily and tendentiously edited. Most disgracefully, Robert Gordon and Bruce Nemerov, themselves white, create a highly biased, falsified frame for the valuable writings they present by means of omission of key information, selective quotations, and. 0s is long overdue and would have been most welcome. Unfortunately, Lost Delta Found is sloppily and tendentiously edited. Most disgracefully, Robert Gordon and Bruce Nemerov, themselves white, create a highly biased, falsified frame for the valuable writings they present by means of omission of key information, selective quotations, and