Society for American Music
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The Society for American Music (SAM) was founded in 1975 and was first named the Sonneck Society in honor of Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, early Chief of the Music Division in the Library of Congress and pioneer scholar of American music. The Society for American Music is a non-profit scholarly and educational organization incorporated in the District of Columbia as a 501 (c) (3) and is a constituent member of the American Council of Learned Societies. It is based at the Stephen Foster Memorial on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
About[]
The mission of the Society for American Music is to stimulate the appreciation, performance, creation, and study of American music in all its diversity. "America" is understood to embrace both American, including North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean, as well as aspects of these cultures everywhere in the world.
The Society holds an annual conference, usually in March, featuring scholarly talks, exhibits, and performances.
Publications[]
In 2007, the Society began publishing its own journal, the Journal of the Society for American Music (JSAM). From 1983 through 2006, the Society had published the journal American Music in collaboration with the University of Illinois Press.
Lifetime Achievement Award[]
The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented by the Society "in recognition of the recipient’s significant and substantial lifetime achievement in scholarship, performance, teaching, and/or support of American Music."[1]
Award recipients are:[1]
Year | Recipient |
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2020 | |
2019 | |
2019 | |
2018 | |
2017 | Randy Weston |
2016 | |
2015 | Josephine Wright[2] |
2014 | Pete Seeger |
2013 | |
2012 | |
2011 | Paul E. Bierley and |
2010 | |
2009 | Horace Clarence Boyer |
2008 | Bill C. Malone[3] |
2007 | Vivian Perlis |
2006 | |
2005 | Dena Epstein |
2004 | |
2003 | H. Wiley Hitchcock |
2002 | Charles Hamm[4] |
2001 | Richard Crawford |
2000 | Billy Taylor and Eileen Southern |
1999 | Robert Stevenson |
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Lifetime Achievement Awards". Society for American Music. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ^ "COW professor earns one of highest honors in field of musicology". The Daily Record. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ^ Moe, Doug (2020-06-15). "A fond farewell to Bill and Bobbie Malone". Channel3000.com. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ^ Woolfe, Zachary (2011-10-23). "Charles Hamm, Author on American Popular Music, Dies at 86". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
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- Arts organizations established in 1975
- Member organizations of the American Council of Learned Societies
- Learned societies of the United States
- 1975 establishments in the United States