[AMS-announce] ANNOUNCEMENT: SAM Dissertation Award

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The Society for American Music is pleased to announce that it is now  
accepting applications for its annual Wiley Housewright Dissertation  
Award.  The Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award is designed to  
recognize a single dissertation on American music for its exceptional  
depth, clarity, significance, and overall contribution to the field.  
"American" is understood here to embrace all of North America,  
including Central America and the Caribbean, and aspects of its  
cultures elsewhere in the world.

Dissertations from American Studies, American history, and other  
fields beyond theory, musicology, and ethnomusicology are welcome as  
long as the primary focus of the work is a musical topic, the  
dissertation is in English, and was completed between 1 January and  
31 December, 2006.

Application:

Candidates should send the following, postmarked no later than March  
15, 2007:

1. The title page and abstract of your dissertation
2. The table of contents
3. Preface or introduction
4. One sample chapter

DMA and other terminal degree documents will be considered as long as  
the entire piece of  scholarship is included in a written document  
(musical compositions or other materials will not be considered).

Applicants should include a full mailing address, phone number, and  
email address (where an acknowledgement will be sent), the title of  
the work, university, department, date, and major advisor. Please do  
not mail the complete dissertation at this time.

Electronic submissions are encouraged (Microsoft Word or .pdf only)  
and should be sent to prw at georgetown.edu (please note that  
attachments larger than 2MB may be rejected).

Hard copies may be mailed to:

Patrick Warfield
Program in Performing Arts
Davis Performing Arts Center
Box 571063
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057-1063

Best wishes,

Patrick Warfield, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology
Georgetown University
prw at georgetown.edu