), was a music collector, who in the 1920s and 1930s amassed a significant collection of field-recorded African-American blues and spirituals and also claimed to have documented black protest traditions in the South of the United States.
This individual was a music collector who specialized in documenting African-American musical traditions, specifically blues and spirituals, as well as recording evidence of black protest movements within the American South during the 1920s and 1930s.