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Creator: Persons, Simmons and Kennedy, R. Emmet (Robert Emmet), 1877-1941 Date: 1925 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Writer and collector Robert Emmett Kennedy (1877–1941) built a career reproducing the black music and storytelling traditions he encountered in his hometown of Gretna, Louisiana, for white audiences. A first-generation Irish American pianist and vocalist, Kennedy’s 1924 Black Cameos was his first... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit