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  • Firefall performing at Folsom Field. The frame looks out onto a crowd of people and the Flatirons are visible in the background.
    The American Music Research Center collections, housed in the CU Boulder Libraries Archives in Norlin Library, comprise the region's largest repository of archival music materials. In this spotlight, discover Colorado’s involvement in the rock and folk eras through the Dan Fong Collection.
  • A.R. Flynn with a typewriter
    The Glenn Miller Collection now has a dedicated archivist in the University Libraries whose job will be to review and catalog over 1,400 boxes of artifacts from the legendary big band era musician who once attended CU Boulder.In 1923, Alton Glen “
  • Uy Headshot
    Michael Sy Uy has been recently appointed the director of the American Music Research Center (AMRC) at the CU Boulder College of Music, and the newest member of our musicology faculty. A quick glance at the impressive
  • Glenn Miller collage wall
    CU Boulder’s vast and historically valuable Glenn Miller collection is set to take the spotlight, thanks to a philanthropy-funded archiving project.In 1923, Alton Glen “Glenn” Miller attended CU Boulder for three semesters before becoming one of the
  • Taylor Covers
    Materials from renowned Boulder-based blues musician Otis Taylor are now part of CU Boulder’s American Music Research Center archival collections. "...housing his work at the AMRC is the best way to give him the visibility, the
  • Pueblo Cover
    The American Music Research Center’s interim director, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology Austin Okigbo, shares the center’s fall semester highlights—including free performances of “Song of Pueblo” on campus and in Pueblo, Colorado.
  • Jones Headshot
    The Susan L. Porter Memorial Fellowship is an award that provides scholarship support for a student doing exceptional research that supports the mission of CU Boulder'sAmerican Music Research Center (AMRC). The 2023-24
  • Dirigible
    For most music students in the 21st century, the idea of silent films seems strangely far-away. One new CU Boulder class seeks to change that. The class, a DMA seminar titled Scoring Silent Film, explores the history of silent
  • Alex Craig
    The AMRC invites CU Boulder student musicians, both undergraduate and graduate, to apply for the new bi-annual Alex Craig and Christina Lynn-Craig Living Music Award. This award celebrates the works of late composer Alex Craig, and is set to be granted for the first time this spring.
  • Ben and Lydia
    Two CU Boulder PhD students work on the Pueblo "Soundscapes of the People" project alongside AMRC Director Dr. Susan Thomas, Dr. Austin Okigbo and Dr. Xóchitl Chávez from the University of California, Riverside. Both of these students are studying ethnomusicology and have been working on the project since summer 2021.
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