The American Music Research Center

The American Music Research Center (AMRC) is a rare music resource dedicated to exploring and preserving the rich traditions of American music — classical, traditional, and popular. The Center serves as a resource for students, faculty, scholars, and the public through concerts, publications, and sponsorship of scholarly activities such as lectures and symposia.

Originally founded in 1968, the core of the AMRC collection was brought to the University of Colorado in 1989. The Center regularly welcomes students of all levels (from elementary to graduate) and publishes information about a range of American music types in its annual journal. Visiting scholars use the AMRC collections for individual projects, and guest speakers are featured in annual symposia.

The AMRC is housed in the Macky Auditorium building on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. Its public hours are normally 10 a.m. to noon and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday through Friday or by appointment. The Howard B. Waltz Music Library, located in the Imig Music Building, contains over 150,000 books, scores, periodicals and recordings and provides excellent reference support for the more specialized collections of the AMRC.

Contact Information:
AMRC Website

Collections, archives, tours and material donations
Cassandra Volpe
303-735-1367, volpec@colorado.edu
or
Laurie Sampsel
303-492-3929, laurie.sampsel@colorado.edu

Public programs, symposia, travel grants, fellowships, and submissions for/or subscriptions to the peer-reviewed annual journal:
Dr. Thomas Riis, director
303-492-7540, Thomas.Riis@colorado.edu
or
AMRC student assistants
303-735-3645

Glenn Miller Archives
Alan Cass
303-492-5317, cass@colorado.edu