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David's a musicologist, even if he might not apply that word, which had only been coined a couple of decades prior. More colloquially, he's a song collector, making regular treks into rural America to record, on wax cylinders, the traditional airs that European immigrants brought with them and made their own, and which would go on to form one of the major support beams in the American musical edifice.