Music Lecture: "Revisionist Challenges in Writing a Biography of Ella Fitzgerald""

Judith Tick, Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Music at Northeastern University, is a leading authority on American music in general and the history of women in music in particular. She is co-editor with Jane Bowers of the anthology "Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition 1150-1950" (1986), a pioneering work in its field, and the author of "American Women Composers Before 1870" (1983), as well as the biography, "Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer¿s Search for American Music" (1997), which won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. In 2000 she received a Distinguished Alumna Medal from Smith College. In 2004 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as an "innovator in the field of musical biography." Her book, "Music in the U.S.A: A Documentary Companion," was published by Oxford University Press in 2008.