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Nimba vol. 1 iss. 1
Newsletter
The article reads "Dr. Eileen Southern, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Music, is the new Chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department. She received a B. A. and M. A. in music from the University of Chicago and a PhD in musicology from New York University. Prior to her appointment as a full professor of the music at the City University of New York. In addition to her administrative responsibilities as Chairman and instructor of courses in Afro-American and Renaissance music. Dr. Southern serves on the Advisory Board of the William E.B. DuBois Institute in Afro-American Research at Harvard and on the Faculty Committee on General Education.
Dr. Southern is the author of The Buxheim Organ Book, The Music of Black Americans: A History and Readings in Black American Music as well as many scholarly articles and reviews. Her works in progress include Anonymous Chansons in a Manuscript at El Escorial and Dictionary of Black Musicians. She is listed in Who's Who in the East, Who's Who Among Black Americans, and in the forthcoming sixth edition of Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. She is a member of the American Musicological Society and the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, among several other learned and professional societies. Dr. Southern's professional background, her dynamic personality and, virtually inexhaustible energy makes her an asset to the academic community at Harvard University."
In a new column with the header "Afro-American Studies at Harvard" next to the photo of Dr. Southern, the text reads "The Afro-American Studies Department embraces a number of disciplines--among them, literature, art, music, history, economics--which share in common their focus on the rich heritage and cultures of peoples of African descent. Thought the prism go the black experience, these studies provide a spectrum of scholarly views of minority group life and culture and offer alternatives to the traditional ways of approaching humanistic and scientific studies as regards Afro-Americans.
The Afro-American Studies Department was established at Harvard in 1969 largely in response to student demand for a curriculum that would examine the black heritage and experience in a unified, holistic way. While the idea of studying the black experience in the United States is not new--certainly social scientists have always studies race relations and aspects of black history--such study has generally regarded the black man and his experiences as 'problems' to be solved. In the Afro-American Studies Department, the black man and his culture are the focus of attention--viewed as making a substantial positive contribution to America and the world. The Afro-American Studies curriculum places black culture not only in an American context but also in its African context, thus pushing its origins
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Dr. Southern is the author of The Buxheim Organ Book, The Music of Black Americans: A History and Readings in Black American Music as well as many scholarly articles and reviews. Her works in progress include Anonymous Chansons in a Manuscript at El Escorial and Dictionary of Black Musicians. She is listed in Who's Who in the East, Who's Who Among Black Americans, and in the forthcoming sixth edition of Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. She is a member of the American Musicological Society and the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, among several other learned and professional societies. Dr. Southern's professional background, her dynamic personality and, virtually inexhaustible energy makes her an asset to the academic community at Harvard University."
In a new column with the header "Afro-American Studies at Harvard" next to the photo of Dr. Southern, the text reads "The Afro-American Studies Department embraces a number of disciplines--among them, literature, art, music, history, economics--which share in common their focus on the rich heritage and cultures of peoples of African descent. Thought the prism go the black experience, these studies provide a spectrum of scholarly views of minority group life and culture and offer alternatives to the traditional ways of approaching humanistic and scientific studies as regards Afro-Americans.
The Afro-American Studies Department was established at Harvard in 1969 largely in response to student demand for a curriculum that would examine the black heritage and experience in a unified, holistic way. While the idea of studying the black experience in the United States is not new--certainly social scientists have always studies race relations and aspects of black history--such study has generally regarded the black man and his experiences as 'problems' to be solved. In the Afro-American Studies Department, the black man and his culture are the focus of attention--viewed as making a substantial positive contribution to America and the world. The Afro-American Studies curriculum places black culture not only in an American context but also in its African context, thus pushing its origins
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1976
Newsletter
Text
Eileen Southern Personal Archive. HUM 253, Box 3, Folder 6. Harvard University Archives.