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The Ruth A. Solie Award

The Ruth A. Solie Award honors each year a collection of musicological essays of exceptional merit published during the preceding calendar year in any language and in any country and edited by a scholar or scholars who are members of the AMS or citizens or permanent residents of Canada or the United States. Established to honor the editor of Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship (University of California Press, 1995; ISBN 0520201469), a field-defining and field-changing book, the award acknowledges the value of the individual authors’ contributions to the volume while recognizing the central role of the editor(s) in conceiving and shaping the whole.

The committee, consisting of five scholars, will entertain, but will not be limited to, nominations from any individual and will choose a single winner from among all the candidates. The winning editor(s) will receive a monetary prize and a certificate, conferred at the Annual Business Meeting and Awards Presentation of the Society by the chair of the committee.

Nominations, including self-nominations, may be submitted by May 1 to the office of the AMS. Nominations should include the name of the editor(s), the title of the book, and the publisher and year of publication. Additionally, the award committee may solicit the curriculum vitae of each nominee.

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