Previous Housewright Dissertation Awards
David Patterson, "Appraising the Catchwords, c.
1942-1959: John Cage's Asian- Derived Rhetoric and the Historic
Reference of Black Mountain College" (1995)
Jennifer L. DeLapp, "Copland in the Fifties: Music and Ideology
in the McCarthy Era" (1997)
David Ake, "Being Jazz: Identities and Images" (1998)
Amy C. Beal, "Patronage and Reception History of American Experimental
Music in West Germany, 1945-1986" (1999)
Sandra J. Graham, "The Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Concert
Spiritual: the Beginnings of an American Tradition" (2000)
Elyse Carter Vosen, "Seventh-Fire Children: Gender, Embodiment,
and Musical Performances of Decolonization by Anishinaabe Youth"
( 2001)
Mark Clague, "Chicago Counterpoint: The Auditorium Theater Building and the Civic Imagination" (2002)
Mark J. Butler, "Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music" (2003)
Charles Hiroshi Garrett, "Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music in the Twentieth Century" (2004)
Jeremy Grimshaw, "Music of a 'More Exalted Sphere': Compositional Practice, Biography, and Cosmology in the Music of La Monte Young" (2005)