Eileen Southern

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)

1st ed., 1971. ; ISBNs , , , French ed., 1976. Chinese ed., 1983. 1992 French ed. of the 1976 ed. ; ISBNs , 3rd ed., English, 1997. ; ISBNs , 2002 Spanish ed. of the 1997 3rd ed. ; ISBNs ,

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).

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