Maud Cuney Hare

Maud Cuney Hare
Born	1874 Galveston, Texas, USA
Died	1936 Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Resting place	Lake View Cemetery, Galveston, Texas, USA 29°16′52″N 94°49′33″W / 29.28111°N 94.82583°W / 29.28111; -94.82583
Residence	Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Other names	Maud Cuney
Alma mater	New England Conservatory of Music
Known for	Documenting African-American culture
Spouse	William Hare
Parents	Norris Wright Cuney, Adelina Dowdie Cuney

Maud Cuney Hare (née Cuney, 1874–1936) was an American musician, author, and African American activist in New England in the United States. She was born in Galveston, the daughter of famed civil rights leader Norris Wright Cuney who led the Texas Republican Party.

Among her many literary and musical contributions she is most remembered for her final work Negro Musicians and Their Music, which helped document the development of African American arts.

She was a close friend and confidant (and former fiancé) of noted author and activist W. E. B. Du Bois.

Works

Among Cuney-Hare's many artistic and literary works are the following.

• Norris Wright Cuney: a tribune of the black people (1913), a biography of her father.
• The Message of the Trees: An Anthology of Leaves and Branches (1918), a collection of nature poems that Cuney-Hare edited.^[1]
• Creole Songs (1921)
• Antar of Araby (1929), a play revolving around the life of an enslaved Arab who eventually discovers his self worth.^[1]
• Negro Musicians and Their Music (1935),^[2] a history of African-American music traditions from Africa to the American jazz age
• Various articles for The Crisis magazine of the NAACP, the Christian Science Monitor, Musical Quarterly, Musical Observer, and Musical America.^[1]

See also

African American portal

• African-American music
• Racism in the United States
• Norris Wright Cuney
• W. E. B. Du Bois

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c} Hales (2003), pg. 95
2. ^ Hare, Maud Cuney (1935). Negro Musicians and Their Music. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0783814178. http://books.google.com/books?id=dnefAAAAMAAJ. 

References

• Maud Cuney Hare from the Handbook of Texas Online
• Hales, Douglas (2003). A southern family in white & Black: the Cuneys of Texas. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 1585442003. http://books.google.com/books?id=VtaZVBagK7sC. 
• Hare, Maud Cuney (1913). Norris Wright Cuney: a tribune of the black people. Crisis Publishing Company. ISBN 078381397X. http://books.google.com/books?id=lHnXAAAAMAAJ. 

External links

• The Maud Cuney Hare Collection: 1843 - 1936

Persondata
Name	Hare, Maud Cuney
Alternative names	Cuney, Maud
Short description	Musician, author
Date of birth	1874
Place of birth	Galveston, Texas
Date of death	1936
Place of death	Boston, Massachusetts, USA