She received her BA in Romance languages and Philology from Stanford University in 1924, when she married medical student Kenneth Greg Robertson. Both of them were associates of Alan Lomax, and it was probably more through Sidney Cowell than anyone that Lomax first became familiar with the musics of the diverse ethnic enclaves of the United States.īorn June 2, 1903, in San Francisco, to Charles Albert and Mabel Morrison Hawkins, the precocious Sidney took music lessons at an early age a nd traveled throughout Europe with her parents on summer vacation. Although this situation is changing, it is still the case with Sidney William Hawkins Robertson Cowell, an internationally known ethnomusicologist, and her husband, pioneering American composer Henry Cowell. Male artists tend to be better known than their wives, even when the latter have had distinguished careers in their own right, and composers tend to be better known than musicologists.
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