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BOWLING GREEN, O.—Dr. Carol Hess, who teaches music history at Bowling Green State University, has been chosen as the first
recipient of the Robert M. Stevenson Award for her book, “Manuel de Falla and Modernism in Spain, 1898-1936.”
The $1,000 prize was presented at the 2004 meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS) in Seattle.
Presented by the AMS, the award recognizes outstanding scholarship in Iberian music. This includes music belonging to or descending from the musical cultures of Spain, Portugal and all Latin American areas where Spanish and Portuguese are spoken. The prize will be given annually to a book, monograph, or journal article.
Hess is an associate professor in the Department of Musicology/Composition/Theory in Bowling Green’s College of Musical Arts.
A specialist in 19th- and 20th-century Spanish and Latin American music, she has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Committee for Cultural Cooperation between American Universities, and Spain’s Ministry of Culture.
Her publications include a bio-bibliography and articles on Enrique Granados; entries on Manuel de Falla and several of his contemporaries for the second edition of the "New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians," and articles in several Hispanic-studies and musicological journals.
Her award-winning book, published in 2001 by the University of Chicago Press, explores the advent of modernism in Spain in relation to political and cultural tension prior to the Spanish Civil War.
In addition to the Stevenson award, the book was one of three finalists for the 2003 Royal Society Award; received one of four “Special Mentions” for the 2003 Motherwell Book Award for books on modernism in the arts, and won the 2002 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, which recognizes excellence in books, articles, broadcasts and Web sites on music.
The $1,000 prize was presented at the 2004 meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS) in Seattle.
Presented by the AMS, the award recognizes outstanding scholarship in Iberian music. This includes music belonging to or descending from the musical cultures of Spain, Portugal and all Latin American areas where Spanish and Portuguese are spoken. The prize will be given annually to a book, monograph, or journal article.
Hess is an associate professor in the Department of Musicology/Composition/Theory in Bowling Green’s College of Musical Arts.
A specialist in 19th- and 20th-century Spanish and Latin American music, she has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Committee for Cultural Cooperation between American Universities, and Spain’s Ministry of Culture.
Her publications include a bio-bibliography and articles on Enrique Granados; entries on Manuel de Falla and several of his contemporaries for the second edition of the "New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians," and articles in several Hispanic-studies and musicological journals.
Her award-winning book, published in 2001 by the University of Chicago Press, explores the advent of modernism in Spain in relation to political and cultural tension prior to the Spanish Civil War.
In addition to the Stevenson award, the book was one of three finalists for the 2003 Royal Society Award; received one of four “Special Mentions” for the 2003 Motherwell Book Award for books on modernism in the arts, and won the 2002 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, which recognizes excellence in books, articles, broadcasts and Web sites on music.
(Posted December 22, 2004)