Eileen Jackson Southern was an American musicologist, researcher, author, and teacher.
10 Facts About Eileen Southern
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Eileen Southern Jackson grew up around many musicians in her family; her father was a violinist; an uncle, a trumpetist; and her mother, a choir singer.
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Eileen Southern majored in commercial art at Lindblom High School in Chicago.
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Eileen Southern 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.
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Eileen Southern continued her studies and received a PhD in musicology from New York University, 1961.
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Eileen Southern studied piano privately at Chicago Musical College, Juilliard, and Boston University.
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Eileen Southern returned to higher education from 1960 to 1968 as an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and then as an associate and full professor at York College, CUNY, from 1968 to 1975, where she established the music program.
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Eileen Southern founded The Black Perspective in Music in 1973, with her husband, Prof.
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Eileen Southern led Frank Johnson's Colored Band, and by 1818, he had taken his band as far south as Richmond, Virginia, playing dances for white southerners.
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Eileen Southern was a member of the International Musicological Society, College Music Society, and Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.