Eileen Southern papers, 1971-1975.
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Southern, Eileen 1920-
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Eileen Southern (1920-2002) was a musicologist, teacher, author, editor, and publisher. She trained and performed as a concert pianist but earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in musicology from the University of Chicago (1940, 1941) and a Ph.D. from New York University (1961). She taught at several institutions, becoming the first black female tenured professor at Harvard (1976) where she chaired the Afro-American Studies Department from 1975-1979. She retired from teaching in 1987. Her numerous publis...
