African-American musicologist; she received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Chicago (1940, 1941) and studied with Gustave Reese at New York University, where she completed her Ph.D. in 1961. She taught at Harvard University from 1976. Southern died October 13, 2002. PUBLICATIONS:

Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians

International Dictionary of Black Composers

The Music of Black Americans: A History, third edition

New Perspectives on Music: Essays in Honor of Eileen Southern, edited by Josephine Wright, with Samuel A. Floyd, Jr.