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Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 9:38 AM
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In Memoriam: Eileen Jackson Southern, 1920-2002
The CBMR has received word of the death of Eileen Jackson Southern on
October 13, 2002, at the age of 82. She was a pioneer in the study of
black music: her book _The Music of Black Americans_, now in its third
edition (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997) is encyclopedic in its coverage of
black music in the United States, from colonial times to the present. She
held degrees from the University of Chicago and from New York University
and taught at several colleges and universities, including Brooklyn
College, York College of the City University of New York, and Harvard. In
addition to her pioneering book, she and her husband Joseph also founded
and published _The Black Perspective in Music_ (1973-1990), the first
scholarly journal devoted to the subject. Her numerous writings have
provided a core upon which other scholars can build, resulting in the
acceptance of black music research as a specialty within musicology.
In his essay "Eileen Jackson Southern: Quiet Revolutionary" published in
_New Perspectives in Music: Essays in Honor of Eileen Southern_ (Warren,
Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 1992) Samuel A. Floyd Jr. described Eileen
Southern as a "heroine" whose "revolution is one of quiet, scholarly
insurgency--the overturning of faulty assumptions about black music and
black musicians and their place and role in the evolution of American
culture . . . an accomplishment that makes it necessary for all scholars
of American music to take into account the Afro-American musical
heritage."
The staff of the Center for Black Music Research extends its heartfelt
condolences to the family of Eileen Jackson Southern.
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