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THE PHILIP BRETT AWARD

The Philip Brett Award, sponsored by the LGBTQ Study Group of the American Musicological Society, was inaugurated in 1997 for exceptional musicological work in the field of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/transsexual studies.

Award Guidelines

                                          RECIPIENTS

2007 Suzanne G. Cusick "Music as Torture, Music as a Weapon," paper presented at AMS Los
Angeles 2006, and "Queer Performativity and the Gender Order in the GWOT
[Global War on Terror]," paper presented at the "Queer Vibrations" conference, Cornell University, March, 2007.
2006 Nadine Hubbs The Queer Composition of America’s Sound, University of California Press, 2004. ISBN 0520241851.
2006 Sherry Lee “A Florentine Tragedy, Or Woman as Mirror” Cambridge Opera Journal 18, 2006.
2005 Judith Peraino Listening to the Sirens: Musical Technologies of Queer Identity from Homer to Hedwig, University of California Press, 2006. ISBN 0520215877.
2004 Ruth Sara Longobardi "Music as Subtext: Reading between the Lines," from "Models and Modes of Musical Representation in Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice: Musical, Historical, and Ideological Contexts," Ph.D. Diss., Columbia University, 2004
2003 Boden Sandstrom Radical Harmonies (Woman Vision, 2002)
2002 Lloyd Whitesell and Sophie Fuller Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity (University of Illinois Press, 2002)
2001 Bruce Holsinger Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001)
2000 Byron Adams "The 'Dark Saying' of the Enigma: Homoeroticism and the Elgarian Paradox," Nineteenth-Century Music 23 (2000), 218-35; and "'No Armpits, Please, We're British': Whitman and English Music, 1884-1936," in Walt Whitman and Modern Music: War, Desire and the Trials of Nationhood, ed. Lawrence Kramer (New York: Garland, 2000), 25-42 
1999 Martha Mockus "Sounding Out: Lesbian Feminism and the Music of Pauline Oliveros" (Ph.D. dissertation: Universidy of Minnesota, 1999)
1998 Gillian Rodger "Male Impersonation on the North American Variety and Vaudeville Stage, 1868-1930" (Ph. D. dissertation: University of Pittsburgh, 1998)
1997 Elizabeth Wood "Decomposition" in Decomposition: Post-Disciplinary Performance, edited by Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, and Susan Leigh Foster (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000) and "The Lesbian in the Opera: Desire Unmasked in Smyth's Fantasio and Fête Galante," in En travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera, edited by Corinne E. Balckmer and Patricia Juliana Smith (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995).

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