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These informative notes lead up to the heart of the book: the complete words and music for 230 religious and secular songs, including Study War No More, Keep Me from Sinking Down, You May Bury Me in the East, Rock of Ages, Go Tell It on the Mountain, and many others.\u003cbr\u003eThis is an indispensable treasury of music for singers, musicians and all readers seeking a comprehensive sourcebook of black American folk music. 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Work III, sociologist Lewis Wade Jones, and graduate student Samuel C. Adams Jr.-joined folklorist Alan Lomax of the Library of Congress on research trips to Coahoma County, Mississippi. Their mission was \"to document adequately the cultural and social backgrounds for music in the community.\" Among the fruits of the project were the earliest recordings by the legendary blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. The hallmark of the study was to have been a joint publication of its findings by Fisk and the Library of Congress. While this publication was never completed, Lost Delta Found is composed of the writings, interviews, notes, and musical transcriptions produced by Work, Jones, and Adams in the Coahoma County study. 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