Tyler Bickford Wins Lise Waxer and Pantaleoni Prizes

Congratulations to Tyler Bickford, a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at Columbia, who has just been awarded two prestigious prizes for recent conference papers:

1) The 2009 Lise Waxer Prize from the Popular Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology, recognizing the most distinguished student paper in the ethnomusicology of popular music presented at the SEM annual meeting in Wesleyan, CT, October 2008, for his paper entitled: "Media Consumption as Social Organization at a New England Primary School."

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2) The 2009 Hewitt Pantaleoni Prize from the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (MACSEM) for the best student paper presented at the Middle Atlantic SEM Chapter meeting in New York, March 2008, entitled: "The Social Economy of Headphone Use in a New England Primary School."

Learn more about Tyler Bickford's work at his personal website.