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2007 Mark Tucker Award for an Outstanding Student
Conference Paper
Committee Members: Steven Baur (Dalhousie University),
chair,
Theo Cateforis (Syracuse University), Annie J. Randall (Bucknell University),
Cecilia Sun (University of Sydney), and Sally Bick (University
of Windsor)
Mark Tucker, Vice President of the Society for
American Music at the time of his death in December, 2000, is known
to most SAM members as a leading jazz scholar. His Ellington:
The Early Years and The Duke Ellington Reader are landmarks
in Ellington scholarship and models of musical biography. But Mark
was deeply interested in many aspects of American music besides
jazz. He wrote papers, participated in performances, and published
pieces dealing with topics as diverse as Charles Ives's love of
the Adirondacks, 19th-century parlor song, the compositions of Alec
Wilder, the musical plays of Braham, Harrigan, and Hart, and hip-hop.
Recognizing Mark's gift for nurturing and inspiring
his own students and the high value he placed on skillful and
communicative scholarly writing, and wishing to honor his memory,
the Board of the Society for American Music has established the
Mark Tucker Award, to be presented at the Business Meeting of
the annual SAM conference to a student who has written an outstanding
paper for delivery at that conference. The recipient of the award,
which consists of a modest amount of cash and a more significant
amount of recognition, will be decided before the conference by
a committee appointed annually.
Students who will be presenting papers at the San Antonio, Texas conference and who wish to compete for the 2007 Mark Tucker
Award should send four copies of the conference paper, along with
four copies of any accompanying audio or visual material, postmarked
no later than January 15, 2008.
Submissions should be sent to Steven Baur at steven.baur@dal.ca
List of previous
Mark Tucker Award winners
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