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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This ethnographic journey into the New York Salsa scene of the 1990s is the first of its kind. Written by a musical insider, and from the perspective of salsa musicians, Sounding Salsa is a pioneering study that offers detailed accounts of these musicians grappling with intercultural tensions and commericial pressures. Christopher Washburne, himself an accomplished salsa musician, examines the organizational structures, recording processes, rehearsing, and gigging of salsa bands, paying particular attention to how they created a sense of community, privileged "the people" over artistic and commercial concerns, and incited cultural pride during performances.
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Congratulations are in order for Elizabeth K. Keenan, who won the 2007 Lise Waxer Prize for the best student paper on popular music for her paper given at the 2006 SEM conference in Hawai'i, "Straightyfest, Ladyquest, Ladyfest: Femininity, Sexuality, and Third Wave Feminism at Young Women's Rock Music Festivals." The Lise Waxer Prize is sponsored by the Popular Music Section of SEM.
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