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."
and2)
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.
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The Center for Ethnomusicology holds copies of, and rights to, the Laura Boulton Collection of Traditional Music, consisting of field recordings of folk and traditional musics made around the world by collector Laura Boulton, from the 1930s through the 1960s. In 1933 and again in 1940, Boulton recorded a total of 129 Hopi songs, ranging from secular to spiritual genres. (The 1933 recordings were made at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition; the 1940 recordings at Hopi.)