The Music in American Culture Award Winners
This award was first presented in 2009 and each year honors a book of exceptional merit that both illuminates some important aspect of the music of the United States and places that music in a rich cultural context. See the complete award guidelines for further information.
See these books at the AMS Amazon bookstoreRECIPIENTS
| 2011 | Albin J. Zak III I Don’t Sound Like Nobody: Remaking Music in 1950s America (University of Michigan Press, 2010; ISBN 978-0472116379) |
| 2010 | Robin D. G.Kelley Thelonius Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, Simon & Schuster. |
| 2009 | George E. Lewis A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music, University of Chicago Press. |
Financial support for the Music in American Culture Award is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation, and the generous contributions of many individual donors.
