Eileen Jackson Southern (February 19, 1920 – October 13, 2002) was an American musicologist, researcher, author, and teacher. At NYU, in addition to Gustave Reese, she also studied with Curt Sachs and Martin Bernstein.

Selected publications

Books

  • The Buxheim Organ Book (2 Vols.), PhD dissertation, New York University, (New York: Institute of Medieval Music, 1963). ,
  • The Music of Black Americans: A History (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1971)

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<li> 1st ed., 1971. ; ISBNs , , , </li>

<li> French ed., 1976. </li>

<li> Chinese ed., 1983. </li>

<li> 1992 French ed. of the 1976 ed. ; ISBNs , </li>

<li> 3rd ed., English, 1997. ; ISBNs ,

<li> 2002 Spanish ed. of the 1997 3rd ed. ; ISBNs , </ol>

  • Readings in Black American Music. Edited by Eileen Southern. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1971; rev. ed., 1983). ; ISBNs ,
  • Anonymous Pieces in the MS El Escorial IV.a.24. Edited by Eileen Southern (Basel: Hänssler-Verlag, 1981).
  • Images: Iconography of Music in African-American Culture (1770s–1920s), Josephine Rosa Beatrice Wright, PhD (born 1942) (co-author), (New York: Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 2000; reprinted by Routledge, 2019).

Articles

References

Further reading

  • The Papers of Eileen Southern, Harvard University Archive, Harvard University
  • African American Registry
  • Guide to the Eileen Southern Collection, Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Chicago
  • Harvard Finding Aid
  • Official Harvard Art Museum Portrait
  • Eileen Southern and The Music of Black Americans, a digital exhibition at Harvard University