Author

Contributions

  • Archive of Folk Song (U.S.) - Contributor
  • Fisk University - Contributor

Publication

1941 - , District of Columbia

Language

English

Word Count

21,500 words, Guess

Page Count

86 pages

Identifiers

Alternate Titles

  • Fisk University Mississippi Delta collection
  • Mississippi Delta collection

Description

The collection consists of a portion of the materials generated by a joint field project undertaken by Alan Lomax, head of the Archive of American Folksong at the Library of Congress, and Fisk University faculty members including Charles S. Johnson, John W. Work, and Lewis Wade Jones in 1941 and 1942. The collection includes correspondence related to the planning of the project. Field recordings were made of secular and religious music, sermons, childrens' games, jokes, folktales, interviews, and dances documenting the folk culture of an African American community in Coahoma County, Mississippi.

Subjects

Places

MississippiCoahoma County (Miss.)

People

Alan Lomax (1915-2002)John W. Work (1901-1967)Lewis Wade Jones (1910-1979)Charles Spurgeon Johnson (1893-1956)

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