We’re pleased to announce that Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World by Richard Jones-Bamman has won the Klaus P. Wachsmann Prize for Advanced and Critical Essays in Organology from the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM). The award was announced at the annual SEM conference, November 15-18, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The award honors a work that advances the field of organology through the presentation of new data and by using innovative methods in the study of musical instruments.