Philip Brett Award Winners
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.
RECIPIENTS
| 2009 | Annie Janeiro Randall Dusty! Queen of the Postmods, Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0195329438. Buy it at Amazon |
| 2009 | Philip Bullock "Ambiguous Speech and Eloquent Silence: The Queerness of Tchaikovsky’s Songs," 19th-Century Music 32 (2008). |
| 2008 | George Haggerty, Jenny Doctor, and Susan McClary Music and Sexuality in Britten: Selected Essays of Philip Brett, University of California Press, 2006. ISBN: 978-0520246102. Buy it at Amazon  |
| 2008 | Martin Pénet “L’expression homosexuelle dans les chansons françaises de l’entre-deux-guerre: entre derision et ambiguïté” Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine 53 (2006) |
| 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. Buy it at Amazon  |
| 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. Buy it at Amazon  |
| 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). ISBN: 978-0252027406. Buy it at Amazon  |
| 2001 | Bruce Holsinger Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture (Stanford University Press, 2001). ISBN: 978-0804740586. Buy it at Amazon  |
| 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) |
