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Maud Cuney Hare (née Cuney, 1874–1936) 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. Essentially part of the second generation after emancipation, Cuney Hare devoted herself to literary and musical contributions. She studied at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where she lived most of her adult years. 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 (1935), which helped document the development of African-American arts. In 1913 she published a biography of her father.