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Tag Archives: award winners
Marian Wilson Kimber Awarded Sight and Sound Subvention Award
in american history, art, awards, dance, gender studies, music, open access, poetry, women
Tagged American music, author awards, award winners, awards, dance, drama, Elocutionists, gender studies, music, open access, opera, poetry, women, women in music
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Marian Wilson Kimber’s book The Elocutionists reclaimed a forgotten performance genre. From the mid-1800s to the 1940s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to entertain audiences, in particular women’s groups. Women, in fact, dominated the art, and their purveyance … Continue reading
Black Opera Awarded Irving Lowens Book Award
in African American Studies, awards, biography, music
Tagged African American Studies, African studies, award winners, awards, biography, music
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We are pleased to announce Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement by Naomi André has won the Society for American Music‘s Irving Lowens Book Award. From the SAM Bulletin:“Focusing on opera, this monograph explores important questions of how race, class and … Continue reading
Banjo Roots and Branches Awarded American Musical Instrument Society’s Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize
in African American Studies, awards, bluegrass, folklore, music
Tagged African American Studies, African studies, award winners, awards, bluegrass, Caribbean studies, country music, folk music, folklore, music
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We are pleased to announce Banjo Roots and Branches edited by Robert B. Winans has won the American Musical Instrument Society’s Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize. The Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize is awarded annually for the most distinguished book-length work in English which … Continue reading
Chinatown Opera Theater in North America wins AMS Music in American Culture Award
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Tagged award winners, music
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We’re pleased to announce that Chinatown Opera Theater in North America by Nancy Yunhwa Rao has been awarded the AMS Music in American Culture Award. The Music in American Culture Award honors each year a book of exceptional merit that both … Continue reading
Blood, Sweat, and Fear Awarded Cugnot Award from the Society of Automotive Historians
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Tagged auto-industry, award winners
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We’re pleased to announce that Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Violence at Work in the North American Auto Industry, 1960-80 by Jeremy Milloy has been awarded the Cugnot Award from the Society of Automotive Historians. The award committee said: “The historian’s craft … Continue reading
Beyond Partition receives award
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Tagged award winners, Beyond Partition, Deepti Misri, Dissident Feminisms, Eugene M. Kayden Book Award
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The University of Illinois Press offers its congratulations to author Deepti Misri. Her recent UIP release Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence, and Representation in Postcolonial India received the 2016 Eugene M. Kayden Book Award in Literary Studies from the University of … Continue reading
The Winner’s Circle
in awards
Tagged Adam Mack, award winners, L.H. Stallings, prizes, Raymond Phineas Stearns, Will Guzman
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Do we like to brag? Ehh, everyone has their faults. Over the years, UIP books have won a great many plaudits, including a National Book Award in 1970 for Science in the British Colonies of America, by Raymond Phineas Stearns. … Continue reading