Popular music

Specialists

Tune in, turn on, and... | January 31, 2017

Introducing the Bear Family Records collection | December 6, 2016

Remembering Kurt Cobain | April 9, 2014

Celebrating Peter Seeger (1919 -- 2014) | January 28, 2014

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Lucie King Harris Collection

Lucie King Harris, born in Sonoma in 1883, was an arts patron, a philanthropist, and an ardent horsewoman. She helped found the San Francisco Opera Association in 1922 and was a governor of the San Francisco Symphony Association, as well as a founder of the San Francisco Choral Society. After her death in 1974, her son, Lawrence W. Harris, Jr., and his wife, Jane, chose to honor her through a book fund for music materials. The Lucie King Harris Books for Music Fund was the first endowed fund in Music at Stanford University.
William R. and Louise Fielder Sheet Music Collection

2,532 individual pieces of sheet music, sheet music lithographs, and music related broadsides from the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Caricatures of Black Americans : sheet music, 1861-1947

White perceptions of African American as portrayed in the cover illustrations of sheet music.
African-American related sheet music, and sheet music written by African Americans, 1851-1974

Sheet music depicting African Americans, or written by African American composers.
Fernando Fernández music collection

Includes popular sheet music, often either in manuscript or with annotations.