Past Awards
The AMS Midwest Chapter offers two annual prizes for outstanding student papers read at its meetings. Students wishing to compete for the annual prizes offered by Indiana University Press and A-R Editions, Inc. should submit their final text as an email attachment to the chair of the program committee, no later than one week prior to the meeting at which the paper will be read. Winners of the awards will be announced after the spring meeting and their names will be published in the Chapter newsletter. The Chapter is grateful to A-R Editions, Inc. and Indiana University Press for their generous encouragement of developing scholars.
Use these links to navigate the list of previous award winners:
The A-R Editions Award
The Indiana University Press Award
The Michael Budds Award
Recipients: Please send corrections and updates to the AMS Midwest Web Manager.
Use these links to navigate the list of previous award winners:
The A-R Editions Award
The Indiana University Press Award
The Michael Budds Award
Recipients: Please send corrections and updates to the AMS Midwest Web Manager.
The A-R Editions Award
First awarded in 1983, this award recognizes the Most Outstanding Student Paper presented at the fall meeting of the AMS Midwest Chapter. A winner is chosen from among presenters who declare their candidacy by the members of the AMS Midwest fall program committee. Awardees receive their choice of A-R publications up to $250.
First awarded in 1983, this award recognizes the Most Outstanding Student Paper presented at the fall meeting of the AMS Midwest Chapter. A winner is chosen from among presenters who declare their candidacy by the members of the AMS Midwest fall program committee. Awardees receive their choice of A-R publications up to $250.
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Paige Carter Dailey (University of Michigan)
"You're Not One of Us: Performing Authenticity in the Contemporary American Hardcore Punk Scene" Rebekah Erdman (University of Iowa) "Ina Boyle's Glencree Symphony: 'Englishness' in an Irish Landscape" Kai West (University of Michigan) "Kill This Machine: Feminist Guitar Smashing from Wendy O. Williams to Phoebe Bridgers" Valeria Chavez Roncal (Northwestern University) "Chance in Conflict: Cagean Aesthetics and the Early Reception of Merce Cunningham and Dance Company" Samantha Lampe (University of Illinois) "To Dream: The Civil Rights Movement's 'Impossible Dream'" Steven Hicks (University of Toronto) "An Archaeology of Authorship in Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten / The Seasons" Andrew Barrett (Indiana University) "Shared Visions of the Eternal: Joaquín Rodrigo’s Fantasía para un gentilhombre and Francoist Spain" Sarah Kovich (Roosevelt University) "Trauma and the Implications of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Disability in Reconsidering the Eighth String Quartet" Devon J. Borowski (University of Chicago) "Singing White Womanhood: Bach’s Kaffeekantate and the Erotics of Enlightenment Cannibalism" Alyssa Mehnert (University of Cincinnati) "'A Constant Stream of Requests': McKinney’s Cotton Pickers on the Radio 1927–1931" [no award given] Derek Stauff (Indiana University) "The Political Context of Schütz’s Concerto 'Saul, was verfolgst du mich'" Danielle Kuntz (University of Minnesota) "Lisbon's Musical Elite and the Genesis of Oratorio in Early Eighteenth-Century Portugal (1719–1723)" Brian MacGilvray (Case Western Reserve University) "Shaping the Memento Mori: Froberger’s Meditation faite sur ma mort future and Seventeenth-Century Vanitas Art" Michele Fuchs (Ohio State University) "Gradual chants and the notion of embodied lament in a passage from Innocent III's De sacro alteris mysterio (1198 C.E.)" Michael Mauskapf (University of Michigan) "'Fighting the Good Fight': Robert Whitney, Charles Farnsley, and the Louisville Orchestra New Music Project" Holly Holmes (University of Illinois) "Ku Klux Klan Sheet Music: 'Creating Desire' in 1920s Middle America" Rachel (Maine) Tollett (Northwestern University) "Renata and Her Inquisitor: The Divine and Demonic without Dividing Line" Aaron Ziegel (University of Illinois) "Chasing Schumann's Papillons : A Poetic Perspective on the Symphony in G Minor" Maria Cristina Fava (Eastman School of Music) "Transforming Test: Weill's Use of Circularity as a Framing Device" Anya Holland-Barry (University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music) "Blurring Boundaries: Libby Larsen's Opera Mrs. Dalloway " Travis N. Yeager (Indiana University) "Bernstein's Chuztpah: Mass and the Jewish Tradition of Argument with God" [no award given] Maria Cristina Fava (Bowling Green State University) "Marc Blitzstein's Sacco and Vanzetti and the Rhetoric of McCarthyism" Alejandro L. Madrid (The Ohio State University) "Constructing Identity through the Avant-Garde: Issues of Ideology and Style in Carlos Chavez's Early Musical Output" Roberta Freund Schwarz (University of Illinois) "En busca de liberalidad: Modalities of Music Patronage by the Spanish Nobility, 1470-1640" Jewel A. Smith (University of Cincinnati) "Playing Chorales at the Piano: Performance at the Moravian Young Ladies' Seminary, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania" Rebecca Wagner Oettinger (University of Wisconsin-Madison) "Popular Song and the Politics of Resistance in the Augsburg Interim" Graham Wood (University of Minnesota) "Re-viewing Oklahoma! : Musicals, Modernity, and National Consciousness" Mark Katz (University of Michigan) "Coming to Terms with Canned Music: Listening to the Phonograph, 1900-1930" Manuel Erviti (University of Illinois) David A. Griffioen (Indiana University) David A. Griffioen (Indiana University) Annie Randall (University of Cincinnati) Todd Borgerding (University of Michigan) J. Michael Allsen (University of Wisconsin-Madison) "Dufay and the Isorhythmic Motet of the 1430s" Patrick Brannon Robin Armstrong (University of Michigan) Lydia Hammessley (University of Minnesota) Antonia L. Banducci (Washington University-St. Louis) Harold Briggs (Indiana University) Kathryn Reed-Maxwell Chris Goertzen (University of Illinois) |
The Indiana University Press Award
The Indiana University Press Award is given in recognition of an outstanding student paper delivered at the spring meeting of the AMS Midwest Chapter. The winner is selected by the program committee, and is announced after the spring meeting.
The Indiana University Press Award is given in recognition of an outstanding student paper delivered at the spring meeting of the AMS Midwest Chapter. The winner is selected by the program committee, and is announced after the spring meeting.
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TBA
Aimee Gonzalez (University of Chicago) "In the Middle of the Revolution . . . Cuba Reconquers It’s Past: Reviving Colonial Music in Twentieth-Century Cuba" Colin Hochstelter (Bowling Green State University) “Establishing Musical Aesthetics in Planetarium Productions: Classical Music and the Space Race in the Adler Planetarium” Dylan Crosson (The Ohio State University) "Undervalued Means: The Overlooked Connection of Charles Ives and the Occult" Anne Monique Pace (University of Chicago) "War Clowns: Probing the Gap Between Stravinksy's Petrushka (1911) and Pulcinella (1920)" [no award given] Maria Fokina (Indiana University) "Negotiating Authenticity in Arif Melikov’s Ballet Legend of Love (1961)" Andrew Malilay White (University of Chicago) "Teaching by Example: Changing Pedagogies of the Postclassical Thoroughbass" Alexis Witt (Indiana University) "The Exotic Allure of Russian Giants, Swans, and Bats: Feodor Chaliapin and the Establishment of Russian Performance Networks in 1920s New York City" Devora Geller (CUNY Graduate Center) "Navigating the Jewish Noise Complaint in Yiddish Films of the 1930s" Jacek Blaszkiewicz (Eastman School of Music) "Enter the Furnace: Morality and Social Space in Offenbach’s La vie parisienne ” [no award given] Jess Peritz (University of Chicago) "Staging Domesticity: Rousseau and the Politics of the Domestic Sphere in Grétry’s Lucile " Jeremy Zima (University of Wisconsin-Madison) "Strauss’s Intermezzo : A New Look at the German Artist-Opera" Claudio Vellutini (University of Chicago) "Opera and Monuments: Verdi's Ernani in Vienna and the Construction of Dynastic Memory" Feng Shu Lee (University of Chicago) "Transcending the Philosophical Boundary: Schopenhauer's Impact on the Ending of the Ring Reconsidered" James A. Naumann (Ohio State University) "Das Schöne Unendliche: Jean Paul's Paradox and Schumann's Sphinx" Christopher Barry (University of Wisconsin-Madison) "Unrecording Philomel: Taped Voice as Schizophonic Prosthesis" Rebecca Bennett (Northwestern University) "Thomson and Adorno Fight 'Appreciation Racket'" Joseph Jones (University of Illinois) "Strauss's Compositional Process and the Act I Trio of Der Rosenkavalier " Sin-Yan Hedy Law (University of Chicago) "'Tout, dans ses charmes, est dangereux': Physical and Musical Gestures in French Pantomime, 1748-1773" Damaris Boettiger (University of Iowa) "Leopoldine Blahetka's Piano Quartet, op. 44, and a 'Mature, Male Spirit'" Lara Housez (University of Western Ontario) "Kurt Weill's Love Life in a Comparative Study with Stephen Sondheim's Assassins" Peter John Schimpf (Indiana University) "Henry Cowell's Gongaku and a Transethnic Basis for the Tone Cluster" Olga Haldey (The Ohio State University) "Savva Mamontov, the Moscow Private Opera, and the Transition from Realism to Modernism on the Russian Operatic State" Shersten Johnson (University of Kansas) "Britten's Musical Syllables" Judith Kuhn (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee) "Shostakovich's Intimate Voice: An Approach to Language and Meaning in the Fourth Quartet" Jane A. Warburton (The Ohio State University) "Questions of Attribution in Three Medieval Texts on Species Theory" Billee A. Bonse (The Ohio State University) "El son de n'Alamanda : Another melody by a Trobaritz?" Rebecca Wagner Oettinger (University of Wisconsin at Madison) "Antichrist and Evil Men: Popular Song as Propaganda in the German Reformation" Paul A. Munson (University of Michigan) "The Poetics of Liszt's St. Stanislaus Oratorio" Laura J. Koenig (University of Iowa) "Quarter Tones and the Enharmonique in 18th-Century France" [no award given] Kelley Harness (University of Illinois) "Amazzoni di Dio : The Image of the Virgin Martyr in Florentine Musical Spectacle under Maria Maddalena d'Austria and Cristina di Lorena (1621-1628)" [no award given] [no award given] Jeffrey Magee (University of Michigan) "The 'Afro-American Presence' in Jazz Criticism” [no award given] J. Michael Allsen (University of Wisconsin-Madison) "Introitus Sections in 14th-Century Motets: History, Form, and Function" [no award given] [no award given] [no award given] [no award given] |
The Michael Budds Award
The Michael Budds award, named in honor of the late Michael J. Budds (longtime chapter member and University of Missouri musicologist), is given in addition to the outstanding student paper awards at the Fall and Spring meetings and recognizes other student papers of exceptional merit. The winner is selected by the program committee and announced after each meeting.
The Michael Budds award, named in honor of the late Michael J. Budds (longtime chapter member and University of Missouri musicologist), is given in addition to the outstanding student paper awards at the Fall and Spring meetings and recognizes other student papers of exceptional merit. The winner is selected by the program committee and announced after each meeting.
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Devin Kaveler (Northwestern University)
"Ghostly Agents and Resonating-Machines: David Tudor's Metaphysical Cosmotechnics" Aimee Gonzalez (University of Chicago) "In the Middle of the Revolution . . . Cuba Reconquers It’s Past: Reviving Colonial Music in Twentieth-Century Cuba" Rebekah Erdman (University of Iowa) "Ina Boyle's Glencree Symphony: 'Englishness' in an Irish Landscape" Patrick Connor Dittamo (University of Chicago) "Punitive" Instruments? Pre-Digital Virality and the Appeal of Pseudohistory" Dylan Crosson (The Ohio State University) "Undervalued Means: The Overlooked Connection of Charles Ives and the Occult" Kai West (University of Michigan) "Kill This Machine: Feminist Guitar Smashing from Wendy O. Williams to Phoebe Bridgers" Valeria Chavez Roncal (Northwestern University) "Chance in Conflict: Cagean Aesthetics and the Early Reception of Merce Cunningham and Dance Company" |
