Music Libraries and Archives in Texas

Number of Listings: 90

Texas Musicians Museum

(972) 259-4444 • (972) 259-4444

Thomas Kreason, Director/Founder • Marianne Kreason, Founder
Website • Email • Facebook
Genres: Rock • Western Swing
Subcategories: Concert and event production • Concert halls/Performing arts centers • Music archives • Ticket sales outlets
Affiliations: Collin County Songwriters Association • Dallas Songwriters Association • North Texas Steel Guitar Association • Texas Music Heritage Foundation
Established: 2004
Texas Musicians Museum features more than 100 Texas music legends. Utilizing unique and exciting displays, a knowledgeable staff and the power of these Texans and their art, the Texas Musicians Museum will bring attention to and educate people about the history and influences of these artists. We believe their music is a statement of Texas' character. Through it, we can see where we have been, who we are, and where we hope to be. The museum operates a mobile exhibit in addition to their permanent exhibit.

Hardin-Simmons University | Smith Music Library
- Murl Sickbert, Music Librarian
- Website • Email
- Genres: Classical • Gospel
- Subcategories: Music archives • Music instruction materials
- Smith Music Library, a separate library located in Caldwell Hall on Cedar Street, contains study scores, collected works of various composers, recordings, reference materials, and virtually all of HSU's books relating to the various areas of music. Listening equipment is provided, and the library houses the recorded concerts and recitals of the School of Music.
  
  Tejano ROOTS Hall of Fame Museum
  - Ruben Lopez, President • Ruben Cadena Jr., Secretary • Homero Hinojosa III, Treasurer • Ted Lopez, Vice President
  - Email • Facebook
  - Subcategories: Music archives • Organizations/Associations
  - Established: 1999
    Tejano Roots (Remembering Our Own Tejano Stars), a nonprofit association out of Alice, established its charter in June 1999, and is working to create a Tejano Music Hall of Fame Museum. The museum will collect, preserve and display historical documents and artifacts, in addition to audio and video recordings by Tejano-music artists. Membership dues start at $25 but sponsorship packages are available, each with its own set of privileges. Funds raised through the membership drive go toward the development of the museum, which will be housed in Alice, Texas. For information on membership applications, visit the business offices located at 60 S. Wright in Alice.
    
    Sul Ross State University | Archives of the Big Bend
    - Melleta Bell, Senior Archivist • Florence J Garza (Jerri), Associate Archivist
    - Website • Email
    - Genre: Folk/Acoustic
    - Subcategory: Music archives
    - Affiliations: Society of American Archivists • Society of Southwest Archivists
    - Established: 1977
      Sul Ross State University's Wilson Collection of Folk Music at the Archives of the Big Bend features tapes and transcripts from West Texas musicians and residents. Compiled by Dr. Tramel Rex Wilson, Professor of Music at Sul Ross State University.
      
      Texas Blues Museum
      - Howard Scott, Director • Bran Aitchison, Director
      - Website • Email • Facebook
      - Genre: Blues
      - Subcategories: Clubs, Dancehalls, Small Venues • Music archives
      - Established: 2008
        The Texas Blues Museum will be a high-tech interactive museum that is dedicated to the history of blues musicians from Texas with temporary highlights of blues musicians from America and around the world. The museum will have free educational tours and lunches on Wednesdays for local students from grades K-12. We will offer a chance for the students to learn to play music; in addition they will learn the business side of the music industry (Management, Agent, Accounting, Recording, Stage Set-up and other areas of the Industry). The museum will feature the Jack Nelson Room (Restaurant/Live music Venue). There will be two professional recording studios for local, regional, statewide and national acts, as well as an interactive kids recording studio, where the students can record their own music and take a CD home. There will also be a local radio station (AM or FM) dedicated to providing great music (Mainly Blues) but will also be a training center for interning local college students through local colleges.
        
        Austin History Center
        
        P.O. Box 2287, Austin, TX 78768-2287
        
        (512) 974-7480
        
        Tim Hamblin, Video Archivist
        Website • Email • Facebook
        
        Subcategory: Music archives
        
        Established: 1955
        The Austin History Center, located at 810 Guadalupe, provides the public with information about the history, current events, and activities of Austin and Travis County. Even before Austin declared itself the "Live Music Capital of the World," the Austin History Center began collecting and preserving examples of music from the local scene. Included in the sound recording collection are the recordings of artists such as Kenneth Threadgill, Joe Ely, the Grey Ghost, the Thunderbirds, Uranium Savages, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. The Austin Music Network began documenting live performances in clubs and venues around Austin in 1994. The Archives of the Austin Music Network are now part of the AHC collections.
        
        Austin Music Video Archives
        
        Austin History Center, P.O. Box 2287, Austin, TX 78768-2287
        
        (512) 974-7305
        
        Tim Hamblin, Archivist
        Website • Email • Facebook
        
        Subcategories: Music archives • Television programming • Video distribution
        
        Affiliations: South Austin Museum of Popular Culture - Advisory Board Member • Texas Music Museum-- Advisory Board Member
        
        Established: 1994
        Austin Music Video Archives are now under stewardship of the Austin History Center. The tapes in the AMV Archives are part of a permanent collection documenting the history of Austin's vibrant music scene. The archives contain the master tapes of music videos and performance footage produced since Austin Music Network's inception in 1994.
        
        Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
        
        P.O. Box 12874, Austin, TX 78711
        
        (512) 936-2311
        
        David Denney, Public Programming
        Website
        
        Subcategory: Music archives
        
        Established: 2001
        The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, located at 1800 North Congress Avenue, includes the Texas Sports and Music exhibit includes biographical information and artifacts on Van Cliburn, Mary Martin, The Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, T-Bone Walker, Jack Teagarden, Red Garland, Lydia Mendoza, Bob Wills, and Light Crust Doughboys.
        
        St. Edward's University Archives
        
        3001 South Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78704
        
        (512) 448-8476
        
        Dianne Brownly, Archivist • Armando Garcia
        Website • Email
        
        Genre: Classical
        
        Subcategory: Music archives
        
        Established: 1958
        St. Edward's University houses the Silvestre Revueltas Collection including programs, articles, personal correspondence and recordings; the St. Edward's school song and its many incarnations; and the history of the St. Edward's music program with records dating from circa 1880 to present.
        
        South Austin Popular Culture Center
        
        1516-B South Lamar Blvd., Austin, TX 78704
        
        (512) 440-8318
        
        Emma Little, President • Scout Stormcloud, Secretary • Michael Kleinman, Vice President & Treasurer • Leea Mechling, Executive Director
        Website • Email • Facebook
        
        Subcategory: Music archives
        
        Established: 2004
        The South Austin Popular Culture Center presents, exhibits, documents and interprets Austin art and culture of the past 50 years and makes that history accessible to local, national and international audiences. Our programs trace the evolution and the social context of Austin’s cultural production from the early 1960s through the present and interpret the local, state and national impact of the artists, art forms and recurrent themes that have profoundly shaped the city’s self-conception over the past 50 years.
        
        Tejano Artist Music Museum, Inc.
        
        2908 Overdale Road, Austin, TX 78723
        
        (512) 928-3122 • (512) 698-4124
        
        Marcelo Tafoya, President • Miranda Tafoya • Tony Tafoya, Editor
        Website • Email
        
        Genres: Latin/Spanish • Regional Mexican • Tejano
        
        Subcategories: Music archives • Organizations/Associations
        
        Established: 1968
        The Tejano Artist Music Museum, Inc. (TAMMI) is dedicated in preserving, promoting and serving the Hispanic heritage, its music, and its performers. Planned as a traveling museum. A nonprofit group. Musica is a free newspaper that informs its readers about what is happening in Hispanic music such as hits, new releases, new artists, and what's being played on the radio. Musica is distributed in all states where the Hispanic community is prominent. The importance of Mexican American Culture has grown tremendously in Texas. The museum would allow the Latin music industry to provide not only talent, but also education to the public. This unique museum will provide historical facts and pictorials to educate the community.
        
        Texas Archive of the Moving Image
        
        501 North IH-35, No. 204, Austin, TX 78702-3201
        
        (512) 485-3073
        
        Caroline Frick, Executive Director
        Website • Email
        
        Genres: Country • Regional Mexican
        
        Subcategories: Music archives • Organizations/Associations
        
        Established: 2002
        The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) celebrates the state's home movies, industrial films, television output, and regional cine-club product as well as Hollywood and internationally produced images of Texas. Valuable to state history, these films also serve an important collaborative role in the preservation and restoration of the larger motion picture heritage for the United States. TAMI is an independent 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the preservation of Texas film heritage. Every year, home movies, television programs, and locally produced films are lost as these visual records of Texas rapidly decompose or are simply thrown away. TAMI works to discover these "orphan" films and to educate the public about moving image history and contemporary preservation practice.
        
        Texas Heritage Songwriters Association | Texas Heritage Songwriters' Hall of Fame
        
        5201 Cuesta Verde, Austin, TX 78746
        
        (512) 964-3381
        
        Carlton Wade, Executive Director • Terry Boothe, Chairman of the Board • Joe Ables, Executive Producer • Bill Schneider, Boardmember • Miranda Bolton
        Website • Email • Facebook • Twitter
        
        Subcategories: Music archives • Organizations/Associations
        
        Established: 2003
        The mission of the Texas Heritage Songwriters Association, in the interest of Texas cultural preservation, is to honor and celebrate Texas songwriters who have played an important role in defining and interpreting Texas' distinctive culture. The Texas Heritage Songwriters Association is a non-profit organization 501(c)3. Officially recognized by the 78th Legislature of the State of Texas on May 22, 2003, The Texas Heritage Songwriters Association was commended for its effort to preserve this significant Texas tradition.
        
        Texas Music Museum, Inc.
        
        1009 East 11th Street, No. 100, Austin, TX 78702-1913
        
        (512) 472-8891 • (512) 471-0520
        
        Dr. Clay Shorkey, President • Rudy Martinez, Vice President • Laurence Egle, Secretary • Joyce Christianson, Treasurer
        Website • Email
        
        Genres: Blues • Country • Tejano
        
        Subcategories: Music archives • Organizations/Associations
        
        Established: 1984
        The Texas Music Museum is a non-profit corporation that celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2014. The museum conducts research, and collects and preserves photographs, artifacts, and documentation relating to all aspects of Texas music. Texas Music Museum presents free music history exhibits and live music programs, creates satellite exhibits for other organizations, and provides information and exhibit materials to various public facilities and publications. Individual exhibits are continually updated, and are presented in the Texas Music Museum galleries at 1009 East 11th Street. The museum is free to the public each weekday for self-guided tours, and offers free tours and special programs for students, seniors, and persons with special needs. Exhibits explore all genres of Texas music history and culture, including regionally focused spotlight exhibits. The long-range goal of the organization is to establish a world-class multimedia Texas music history center in Austin.
        
        Texas Music Trail
        
        P.O. Box 12428, Austin, TX 78711
        
        Steve Ray, Program Specialist
        Website • Email • Facebook • Twitter
        
        Subcategory: Music archives
        
        Established: 2018
        The story of Texas has long been told in music and song - from the early days of cattle drives on the wide open plains and cowboy crooners in small town dancehalls to today’s pure and eclectic sounds heard in music hubs all across the state. A fusion of blues, cajun, conjunto, country, gospel, jazz, ragtime, rock and roll, zydeco and more, Texas music is as big and broad as the horizon is wide. And names like Gene Autry, Buddy Holly, Janis Joplin and Selena are recognized world round. To celebrate the communities that have supported the Lone Star State’s place in American music history while also creating a fun new way to enjoy your favorite songwriters, performers and music venues, the Texas Music Office has launched a curated series of self-guided Texas Music Trails to explore and experience the Texas music scene.
        
        University of Texas at Austin | Benson Latin American Collection | Border Cultures: Conjunto Music
        
        University of Texas at Austin, Sid Richardson Hall 1.108, Austin, TX 78713-8916
        
        (512) 495-4582
        
        Craig Schroer
        Website • Email
        
        Genre: Tejano
        
        Subcategory: Music archives
        
        Established: 1921
        The University of Texas at Austin's Benson Latin American Collection (located on the corner of 2200 block of Red River and Manor Street) provides information about the conjunto musical style, its history, cultural significance, and artistry. Links include: Música fronteriza / Border Music - by Manuel Peña (from Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies); "Yo soy de aqui" by Daniel J. Schaefer (a photo exhibit of Central Texas conjunto accordion players); and The Arhoolie record label which has been a longtime proponent of conjunto music. The exhibit includes photos, album covers, liner notes, and sound samples of some of their classic recordings of conjunto artists.
        
        University of Texas at Austin | Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
        
        Sid Richardson Hall 2.101, 1 University Station D1100, Austin, TX 78712-0335
        
        (512) 495-4515 • (512) 495-4559
        
        John Wheat, Coordinator for Sound Archives • Amy Bowman, Photography Services Coordinator
        Website • Email
        
        Genres: Country • Tejano
        
        Subcategory: Music archives
        
        Established: 1950
        The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History (located on the 2300 block of Red River) contains major archives of Texas and Southern music including commercial recordings, sheet music, books and journals, photographs, posters, etc. Collections include: Archives of the Touring Entertainment Industry, Texas Music Collection, SXSW, Inc. Archives, Rod Kennedy Presents, Inc. Archives, Huey P. Meaux Collection, Armadillo World Headquarters and Soap Creek Saloon Archives, Townsend Miller Collection, Ed Ward Collection, Tary Owens Collection, Texas Composers Collection, Tara Veneruso Video Collection, Mance Lipscomb Collection, Doug Hanners Music Collection, Eric Graham Video Collection, Bob Johnston Collection, John A. Lomax Family Papers, UT Folklore Center Archives, and Texas Poster Art Collection. Full reference and photographic services.
        
        University of Texas at Austin | Fine Arts Library
        
        DFA 3.200, Austin, TX 78712
        
        (512) 495-4475 • (512) 495-4481
        
        David Hunter, Music Librarian
        Website • Email
        
        Genres: Classical • Jazz
        
        Subcategory: Music archives
        
        Affiliations: American Musicological Society • Association of Recorded Sound Archives • Music Library Association
        
        Established: 1939
        The University of Texas Fine Arts Library (located at 23rd Street and Trinity) includes the Adolfo Betti Collection, the Ainslee Cox Collection of 20th Century Orchestral Scores, the Lynn Freeman Olson Collection of Piano Pedagogy Materials, vocal anthology collections, and an extensive reference collection of catalogs, bibliographies and discographies. The Historical Music Recordings Collection (David Hunter, Curator) includes over 200,000 items, covering all types of music in all types of media. The library contains more than 100,000 scores, 50,000 CDs, and 50,000 books about music.
        
        University of Texas at Austin | Latin American Network Information Center Music Resources
        
        1 University Station, No. D0800, Austin, TX 78712
        
        (512) 232-2408
        
        Ning Lin, Technical Director • Kent Norsworthy, Content Director • Carolyn Palaima, Project Director
        Website • Email
        
        Genres: Latin/Spanish • Tejano
        
        Subcategory: Music archives
        
        Established: 1992
        The Latin American Network Information Center | LANIC (located on the corner of 2200 block of Red River and Manor Street) is affiliated with the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at the University of Texas at Austin. LANIC has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and UT Austin's College of Liberal Arts. LANIC is a key component of the International Information Systems, also based at UT Austin. LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. Our target audience includes people living in Latin America, as well as those around the world who have an interest in this region. While many of our resources are designed to facilitate research and academic endeavors, our site has also become an important gateway to Latin America for primary and secondary school teachers and students, private and public sector professionals, and just about anyone looking for information about this important region. LANIC sponsors several related programs, including a number of Internet-related Training Initiatives. LANIC's editorially reviewed directories contain over 12,000 unique URL's, one of the largest guides for Latin American content on the Internet.
        
        University of Texas at Austin | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
        
        P.O. Drawer 7219, Austin, TX 78713-7219
        
        (512) 471-3374 • (512) 491-6353
        
        Barbara Carr
        Website • Email
        
        Genres: Classical • Jazz
        
        Subcategory: Music archives
        
        Established: 1957
        The Harry Ransom Center, renamed in 1983, (located on the corner of Guadalupe and 21st Street) is one of the world's preeminent institutions for literary and cultural research. The principal rare books and manuscripts library of The University of Texas at Austin, its special collections contain approximately 24 million manuscripts, 1 million books, 5 million photographs, over 100,000 works of art, and an important collection on performing arts. Since its inception in the mid-1950s, the major emphasis of its acquisitions has been on twentieth-century literature and fine arts, principally American, British and French.
        
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Music Libraries and Archives in Texas

Texas Musicians Museum

Hardin-Simmons University | Smith Music Library

Tejano ROOTS Hall of Fame Museum

Sul Ross State University | Archives of the Big Bend

Texas Blues Museum

Austin History Center

Austin Music Video Archives

Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum

St. Edward's University Archives

South Austin Popular Culture Center

Tejano Artist Music Museum, Inc.

Texas Archive of the Moving Image

Texas Heritage Songwriters Association | Texas Heritage Songwriters' Hall of Fame

Texas Music Museum, Inc.

Texas Music Trail

University of Texas at Austin | Benson Latin American Collection | Border Cultures: Conjunto Music

University of Texas at Austin | Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

University of Texas at Austin | Fine Arts Library

University of Texas at Austin | Latin American Network Information Center Music Resources

University of Texas at Austin | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center