Maud Cuney Hare
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| Born |
February 16, 1874 Galveston, Texas, US |
| Died | February 13 or 14, 1936, age 61 Boston, Massachusetts, US |
| Resting place | Lake View Cemetery, Galveston, Texas, US 29°16′52″N 94°49′33″W / 29.28111°N 94.82583°W |
| Residence | Boston, Massachusetts, US |
| Other names | Maud Cuney |
| Alma mater | New England Conservatory of Music |
| Known for | Documenting African-American culture |
| Spouse(s) | William P. Hare |
| Parent(s) | Norris Wright Cuney, Adelina Dowdie Cuney |
Maud Cuney Hare (née Cuney, February 16, 1874–February 13 or 14, 1936) was an American pianist, musicologist, writer, and African-American activist in Boston, Massachusetts 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 during and after the Reconstruction Era, and his wife Adelina (née Dowdie), a schoolteacher. In 1913 Cuney-Hare published a biography of her father.
Essentially part of the second generation after emancipation, Cuney Hare studied at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and became an accomplished pianist. She lived in Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood of Boston, most of her adult life. A musicologist, she collected music from across the South and Caribbean in her study of folklore, and was the first to study Creole music. She is most remembered for her final work, Negro Musicians and Their Music (1936), which documents the development of African-American music.
Maud was born in Galveston, Texas on February 16, 1874 to Adelina (Dowdy, or Dowdie in alternate spelling) and her husband Norris Wright Cuney. Both parents were of mixed race; her father was of majority-white ancestry. Her mother, one of the "handsome Dowdy girls," came from Woodville, Mississippi. Her father's ancestry was African, Indian, European, and Swiss-American. The Cuney children were a "second family" related to a large, wealthy and politically powerful white family headed by Gen. Philip Minor Cuney of Austin County, Texas, who had been born in Louisiana. Norris Cuney was one of eight mixed-race children born to Cuney and his mixed-race slave housekeeper, Adeline Stuart. Philip Cuney acknowledged and freed his children and Stuart before the Civil War. By 1850 Cuney was one of the largest planters and slaveholders in Texas, with 2,000 acres and more than 100 slaves. He had eight white children born to his 'legal' white wives: three children by his second wife, Eliza (Ware) Cuney, who died young; and five by his third wife, Adaline (Spurlock) Cuney.
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