), 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.
A music enthusiast who amassed a substantial collection of field recordings of African-American blues and spirituals in the 1920s and 1930s, also claimed to have documented black protest traditions in the Southern United States.