Based at the University of Pittsburgh and housed in the Stephen Foster Memorial, the Center for American Music is a library, archive and museum dedicated to expanding and documenting knowledge of American music and its role in American life.

The centerpiece of the Center's library collections is the Foster Hall Collection, the principal repository for materials pertaining to American composer Stephen Collins Foster.

In addition to being a library, archive, and museum, the Center's projects include, Voices Across Time, a curriculum support package that allows teachers to integrate historic American Music into their classrooms, and Resources of American History II, a proposed digital version of Resources of American Music History that will provide online access access to music scores, papers, sound recordings, and other American music-related materials in archives around the globe.

To learn more about the Center, its library, and programs, or to find out more about Stephen Foster, please select from the links on the left.

Center for American Music
Foster Hall Collection
Stephen Foster Memorial
University of Pittsburgh
4301 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
(412) 624-4100 voice