Previous Irving Lowens Awards
BOOKS
Charles Hamm, Music in the New World (1983)
Richard Crawford, Core Repertory of Early American Psalmody
(1984)
J. Peter Burkholder, Charles Ives: The Ideas Behind the Music
(1985)
Gunther Schuller, Musings: The Musical Worlds of Gunther Schuller
(1986)
D.W. Krummel, Bibliographical Handbook of American Music
(1987)
Russell Sanjek, American Popular Music and Its Business (1988)
Vivian Perlis, Copland: Since 1943 (1989)
Dale Cockrell, Excelsior: Journals of the Hutchinson Family Singers
(1989)
Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., Black Music in the Harlem Renaissance (1990)
Susan Porter, With an Air Debonair: Musical Theatre in America
(1991)
Stuart Feder, Charles Ives, "My Father's Song": A Psychoanalytical
Biography (1992)
Stephen Banfield, Sondheim's Broadway Musicals (1993)
Ronald Radano, New Musical Figurations: Anthony Braxton's Cultural
Critique (1993)
Robert Walser, Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness
in Heavy Metal Music (1993)
Joseph Horowitz, Wagner Nights : An American History (1994)
S. Frederick Starr, Bamboula! The Life and Times of Louis Moreau
Gottschalk (1995)
Ingrid Monson, Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction
(1996)
Judith Tick, Ruth Crawford Seeger; A Composer's Search for American
Music (1997)
Adrienne Fried Block, Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian (1998)
Howard Pollack, Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon
Man (1999)
Carol Oja, Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s (2000)
Richard Crawford, America's Musical Life: A History (2001)
Walter van de Leur, Something to Live For: The Music of Billy
Strayhorn (2002)
Gage Averill, Four Parts, No Waiting:
A Social History of American Barbershop Harmony (2003)
Tim Brooks, Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1890-1919 (2004)
Jeffrey Magee,
The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz (2005)
ARTICLES
Scott DeVeaux, “Constructing the Jazz Tradition:
Jazz Historiography” Black American Literature Forum, 1991
Robert Walser, “Eruptions: Heavy Metal Appropriations of Classical
Virtuosity” Popular Music, 1992
Judith Tick, “Charles Ives and Gender Ideology” Music and Difference,
1993
John Spitzer, “'Oh! Susannah' : Oral Transmission and Tune Transformation”
Journal of the American Musicological Society, 1994
Kim H. Kowalke, “Kurt Weill, Modernism, and Popular Culture: Offentlichkeit
als Stil” Modernism/Modernity, 1995
Mark Tucker, “In Search of Will Vodery” Black Music Research
Journal, 1996
Kim H. Kowalke, “For Those We Love: Hindemith, Whitman, and An American
Requiem” Journal of The American Musicological Society, 1997
Carol Hess, “John Philip Sousa's 'El Capitan': Political Appropriation
and the Spanish-American War” American Music, Spring 1998
Brian Harker, “'Telling a Story': Louis Armstrong and Coherence
in Early Jazz” Current Musicology, Vol. 63, 1999
John Graziano, “The Early Life and Career of the 'Black Patti':
The Odyssey of an African American Singer in the Late Nineteenth
Century,” Journal of the American Musicological Society
(Fall 2000).
Guthrie Ramsey, Jr., “Who Hears Here? Black
Music, Critical Bias, and the Musicological Skin Trade”
Musical Quarterly, Volume 85, No.1 (2001)
J. Peter Burkholder, “The Organist in Ives” Journal
of the American Musicological Society, Summer 2002
Stanley V. Kleppinger, “On the Influence of Jazz Rhythm in
the Music of Aaron Copland,” American Music Volume 21,
No. 1, Spring 2003
Jairo Moreno, “Bauzá—Gillespie—Latin/Jazz: Difference, Modernity, and the Black Caribbean,” South Atlantic Quarterly 103:1 (Winter 2004)
Beth Levy, “From Orient to Occident: Aaron Copland and the Sagas of the Prairie,” in Aaron Copland and His World, edited by Carol J. Oja and Judith Tick (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005)