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Sidney Robertson Cowell
Portrait of Cowell c. 1948
Born
Sidney William Hawkins

(1903-06-02)June 2, 1903
San Francisco, California, U.S.
DiedFebruary 23, 1995(1995-02-23) (aged 91)
Woodstock, New York, U.S.
Occupations
  • Ethnomusicologist
  • writer
  • pianist
Spouses
Kenneth Robertson
(m. 1924; div. 1934)
Henry Cowell
(m. 1941)

Sidney Robertson Cowell (born Sidney William Hawkins; June 2, 1903 – February 23, 1995) was an American ethnomusicologist, collector of folk songs, and the wife of the composer Henry Cowell.[1][2]

  1. ^ Adamian, John (2016). "A Bag of Old Songs from Elsewhere" JSTOR Daily, Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  2. ^ Scahill, Adrian (2022). "The Many Sides of Music and Song Collecting" The Journal of Music. Retrieved 20 June 2022.

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