Eileen Southern

Biography

Dr. Eileen Southern was board February 19, 1920, in Minneapolis, MN. She was the first black woman to be appointed a tenured full professor at Harvard University. Her best-known book is the preeminent historical work on Black music, The Music of Black Americans (1971). Her other work is Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians (1982). Southern passed on October 13, 2002

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Six Books by Eileen Southern

Images: Iconography of Music in African-American Culture (1770s-1920s) (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

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The Music of Black Americans: A History (Third Edition)

The Music of Black Americans

African American Theater (Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater)
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African American Theater (Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater)

African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance, 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature, Collections, and Artworks (The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music)

African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance, 1600s-1920

Readings in Black American Music (Second Edition)

Readings in Black American Music (Second Edition)

Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians (The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music)

Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians (The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music)

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