Eileen Jackson Southern (born 1920 in Minneapolis - died October 13, 2002 in Port Charlotte, Florida) was an African American musicologist, reasearcher, author and teacher. 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... Downtown Minneapolis as viewed from the Stone Arch Bridge Minneapolis is the largest city in Minnesota and the county seat of Hennepin County. ... October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Port Charlotte is a census-designated place located in Charlotte County, Florida. ... African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ... A musicologist is someone who studies musicology. ...

She attended public schools in her hometown, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In childhood, as she developed as a pianist, young Eileen was introduced to and became partial to the music of those she calls the "piano composers," including Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Claude Debussy. In addition, her piano teachers, mostly white, were concerned that she would know music by black composers and introduced her to R. Nathaniel Dett's In the Bottoms, among other such compositions. The term public school has two contrary meanings: In England, one of a small number of prestigious historic schools open to the public which normally charge fees and are financed by bodies other than the state, commonly as private charitable trusts; here the word public is used much as in... Photo of the waterfall in Sioux Falls Sioux Falls (pronounced ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Dakota. ... A pianist is a person who plays the piano. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music Music City : a collaborative music database All Music Guide... Johann Sebastian Bach, 1748 portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March 1685 (O.S.) – 28 July 1750 (N.S.))[1] was a German composer and organist of the baroque period, and is widely acknowledged[2] as one of the greatest composers in the Western tonal tradition. ... Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770; died March 26, 1827) was a German composer of classical music, who predominantly lived in Vienna, Austria. ... Claude Debussy (Achille-) Claude Debussy (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a composer of impressionistic European classical music. ... Robert Nathaniel Dett (October 11, 1882 – 1943), often known as R. Nathaniel Dett, was a composer in the United States and Canada. ...

Southern majored in commercial art at Chicago's Lindblom High School. During the same period she won piano-performance and essay competitions, taught piano lessons, and directed musical activities at the Lincoln Community Center. She gave her first piano recital at the age of twelve and made her debut in Chicago Orchestra Hall at age eighteen, playing a Mozart concerto with the symphony orchestra of the Chicago Musical College. Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... An essay is a short work that treats of a topic from an authors personal point of view, often taking into account subjective experiences and personal reflections upon them. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was one of the most significant and influential of all composers of Western classical music. ... Orchestra at City Hall (Edmonton). ... Chicago Musical College in Illinois has been teaching young city musicians since its founding in 1867. ...

She attended and received degrees from the University of Chicago (B.A., 1940, and M. A., 1941) and New York University (Ph.D., 1961). Her relationship with Cecil Smith encouraged her to further develop her interest in Negro folk music and he advised for her master's thesis. The University of Chicago is a private co-educational university located in Chicago, Illinois. ... A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B.) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate or graduate course of one to three years in duration. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... New York University (NYU) is a large research university in New York City. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Negro means the color black in both Spanish and Portuguese languages, being derived from the Latin word niger of the same meaning. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ...

Southern also studied piano privately at Chicago Musical College, the Juilliard School of Music, and Boston University. She was the first black woman to be appointed a tenured full professor at Harvard University. Her best known book is the seminal history The Music of Black Americans (1971). Her other work is Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians (1982). She founded Black Perspectives in Music in 1973, with her husband, Prof. Joseph Southern. It was the first musicological journal on the study of black music, and she was its editor until it ceased publication in 1990. The Juilliard School is a performing arts conservatory in New York City, informally but definitively identified as simply Juilliard, and most famous for its musically-trained alumni. ... Boston University is a non-sectarian private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

She also discovered Frank Johnson, a black Philadelphia bandleader who'd risen to fame at the end of the 1700s. He'd led Frank Johnson's Colored Band and by 1818 had taken his band as far south as Richmond, Virginia, playing dances for white southerners. Johnson had played a command performance at Buckingham Palace, where he received a silver bugle in appreciation. Philadelphia is a village located in Jefferson County, New York. ... Events and Trends The Bonneville Slide blocks the Columbia River near the site of present-day Cascade Locks, Oregon with a land bridge 200 feet high. ... 1818 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Downtown Richmond as seen from the James River Motto: Sic Itur Ad Astra (Such is the way to the Stars) Nickname: River City Location in Virginia Founded  -Incorporated  1607   County  Independent city Mayor  Douglas Wilder Area  - Total  - Water  162. ... Buckingham Palace and the Victoria memorial. ...

Dr. Southern received a National Humanities Medal in 2001 for having "helped transform the study and understanding of American music." She also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of American Music in 2000. The National Humanities Medal honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities, broadened citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An award is something given to a person or group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

She headed the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University from 1975 to 1979, and retired in 1987 as a professor emeritus to live in St. Albans, New York. Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... St. ...

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