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2019 Blues Hall of Fame Inductee Classic of Blues Literature: Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942 (Compiled by John W. Work, Lewis Wade Jones, and Samuel C. Adams, Jr.) Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942 presents a unique and valuable perspective on the pioneering Coahoma County study that also was recounted in Alan Lomax’s Land Where the Blues Began, a prior Classics of Blues Literature honoree. Written by African-American scholars from Fisk University, Lost Delta Found documents their crucial but often overlooked work on the project. First planned for publication back in the ’40s, the original manuscript, written by John W. Work and Lewis Wade Jones, was submitted to the Library of Congress but was reported missing or misplaced for years. This 2005 Vanderbilt University Press publication, edited by Robert Gordon and Bruce Nemerov, also includes the 1947 master’s thesis by Samuel Adams, who was part of the Fisk crew, along with additional information on the county’s black music that was documented by others during their trips there. For more information on The Blues Foundation and Blues Hall of Fame, please visit www.blues.org.