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| | Dr. Eileen Southern, Harvard professor and Black music scholar, dies - Census Jet - Find Articles |
 | | Dr. Eileen Jackson Southern, noted author and researcher of African-American music and the first Black woman appointed as a tenured full professor at Harvard University, died at her home in Port Charlotte, FL. |
 | | In 1973, she and husband Joseph Southern, a professor, founded Black Perspectives In Music, the first musicological journal on the study of Black music, which she edited until the journal ceased publication in 1990. |
 | | Dr. Southern is survived by her husband of 60 years, Joseph Southern; daughter, April S. Reilly; a son, Edward J.; a sister, Stella Hall; and three grandchildren. |
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