Book Awards

The IASPM-US Book Awards Committee recognized winners and runners-up for titles published for two separate years:

1999 Winner: Adelaida Reyes Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free: Music and the Vietnamese Experience (Temple University Press)

1999 Runner-Up: Steve Waksman Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience (Harvard University Press)

1998 Winner: Frances R. Aparicio Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures (Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England)

1998 Runner-Up: Daniel Cavicchi Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning Among Springsteen Fans (Oxford University Press)

1998 Runner-Up: Jeff Smith The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music (Columbia University Press)

Graduate Student Paper Awards

For the second year, IASPM-US presented its annual award for outstanding graduate student conference papers. The award recognizes three winners. In alphabetical order:

Christina Baade (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "’Victory through Harmony’: Dance Music for Workers in Wartime Britain."

Eden Kainer (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "Ella Fitzgerald: Bridging the Gap from the Exotic Other to the Mainstream"

David Suisman (Columbia University) "The Only Genuine Colored Record: Black Swan and the Cultural Politics of the First Black-Owned Record Company"