Epstein, Dena

Dena Epstein is the former Assistant Music Librarian at the University of Chicago. Ms. Epstein was active in the Music Library Association, serving on the Board of Directors and as MLA President. She became an honorary MLA member in 1986. Her interest in the history of American music publishing and pre-Civil War African-American music resulted in Sinful Tunes and Spirituals (University of Illinois Press, 1977) and Music Publishing in Chicago Before 1871 (Information Coordinators, 1969). She also edited I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl (University of Illinois Press, 1989), the autobiography of Hilda Satt Polacheck, her mother.

From the guide to the Epstein, Dena. Papers, 1937-1938, (Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.)