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H. Colin Slim Award Winners

This award was first presented in 2005. It recognizes an outstanding musicological article published in the previous year by a scholar beyond the early stages of her or his career. See the complete award guidelines for further information.

Recipients

2020
 Judith A. Peraino
“I'll Be Your Mixtape: Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, and the Queer Intimacies of Cassettes,” The Journal of Musicology 36/4 (2019): 401-436.
2019
 Roger Freitas
“Singing Herself: Adelina Patti and the Performance of Femininity” Journal of the American Musicological Society 71/2 (2018): 287–369.
2018 Jennifer Saltzstein
“Rape and Repentance in Two Medieval Motets,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 70/3 (2017): 583–616.
2017 Anna Schultz and Sumanth Gopinath
“Sentimental Remembrance and the Amusements of Forgetting in Karl and Harty’s ‘Kentucky’,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 69/2 (2016): 477–524.
2016 W. Anthony Sheppard
“Puccini and the Music Boxes,” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 140/1 (2015): 41–92.
2015 Pierpaolo Polzonetti
“Tartini and the Tongue of Saint Anthony,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 67/2 (2014): 429–86.
2014 Anna Maria Busse Berger
“Spreading the Gospel of Singbewegung: An Ethnomusicologist Missionary in Tanganyika of the 1930s,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 66/2 (2013): 475–522.
2013 Tim Carter
“Monteverdi, Early Opera and a Question of Genre: The Case of Andromeda (1620),” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 137/1 (2012): 1–34.
2012 Lydia Goehr
“‘—wie ihn uns Meister Dürer gemalt!’: Contest, Myth, and Prophecy in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 64/1 (2011): 51–118.
2011 Mark Everist
“Grand Opéra—Petit Opéra: Parisian Opera and Ballet from the Restoration to the Second Empire,” 19th-Century Music 33/3 (2010): 195–231.
2010 David Brodbeck
“Hanslick’s Smetana and Hanslick’s Prague,” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 134/1 (2009): 1–36.
2009 Rose Rosengard Subotnik
“Shoddy Equipment for Living?: Deconstructing the Tin Pan Alley Song,” Musicological Identities: Essays in Honor of Susan McClary (Ashgate, 2008).
2008 Christopher Reynolds
“Porgy and Bess, ‘An American Wozzeck’,” Journal of the Society for American Music 1/1 (2007): 1–28.
2007 Anne Walters Robertson
“The Savior, the Woman, and the Head of the Dragon in the Caput Masses and Motet,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 59/3 (2006): 537–630.
2006 Ralph Locke
“Beyond the Exotic: How ‘Eastern’ is Aida?,” Cambridge Opera Journal 17/2 (2005): 105–39.
2005 Jann Pasler
“The Utility of Musical Instruments in the Racial and Colonial Agendas of Late Nineteenth-Century France,” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 129/1 (2004): 24–76.
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