[b]Bonnie Jean Blackburn[/b] (born July 15, 1939, Albany, New York) is an American musicologist. She graduated in 1970 from the University of Chicago with a PhD. She studied with Edward Lowinsky and Howard Mayer Brown. She was Lecturer at Northwestern University, and visiting faculty member at the University of Chicago in 1986, and University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in 1989–90. She moved to Oxford in 1990 and became a freelance editor. She married Edward Lowinsky (d. 1985) and subsequently Leofranc Holford-Strevens. She is a corresponding member of the American Musicological Society, and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005.