“Roots and Branches” - Music - University of California, Irvine

Maud Cuney-Hare Collection, 1900-1936
Archives and Special Collections
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Atlanta University Center
Atlanta, GA
The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
Howard University
500 Howard Place, N.W
Washington, DC 20059
Phone: 202/806-7480
Music reflecting Black participation in and contributions to the development of jazz, folk, spiritual, popular and classical styles, is well
documented by the Music Department. Its collections are rich in sheet music, recordings, songbook albums, and instructional concert
material for voice and piano. The collection documents over 400 composers dating from the 18th century to the present. Among the major
composers represented are Will Marion Cook, William L. Dawson, R. Nathaniel Dett, W.C. Handy, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
Division William L. Clements Library
The University of Michigan
909 S. University Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190
Collection of early American music, including music of African Americans,
of the 18th and 19th centuries
Music Information Center
Chicago Public Library
400 S. State Street
Chicago, IL 60605
Phone: 312 747-4850; Fax 312 747-4832
One of the largest music collections in a public library with substantial holdings in African American music including The Chicago Blues
Archives, the Jubilee Showcase Gospel Music Video Collection (fifty hours), The Martin & Morris Gospel Sheet Music Collection, files,
board minutes and documents of the African American local 208 of the American Federation of Musicians, Roy G. Butler Collection, and
The University of Chicago Folk Festival Recordings Collection.
Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023
Phone: 212/870-1663; 870-1662
Second largest recorded sound archives in the USA, which stems from the earliest days of recorded sound cylinders to the latest laser discs,
has recordings of Afro-American composers and performers (though that is not their main focus), a collection of very early as well as
current record company catalogs which list the different artists and the songs that they recorded, sometimes with interesting photos and
bios and a large print collection of books and periodicals, dealing with composer and artist discographies, as well as any other aspect of
recorded sound
Their Music Research Division has many scores and manuscripts in their
Americana collection. The contact person there is George Boziwick, and
his number is 212-870-1647. [SV]
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
New York Public Library
515 Malcolm X Blvd.
New York, N. Y. 10037-1801
Reference Desk: 212/491-2218
One of the world's largest collections of African/American and other African related cultural materials, including sheet music, sound
recordings and videos [SV]
Smithsonian: African American History and Culture
Washington, DC
Selected links to African American sites hosted by Smithsonian
Institution museums and organizations