ELIGIBILITY Students may nominate their own projects. Alternatively, students’ projects may be nominated or encouraged by faculty members, associate instructors, and classmates. To be eligible for this year’s award, a project must have been submitted in fulfillment of course requirements for a music history class during the 2024 calendar year. You may revise the project… Read more »
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Halina Goldberg’s Recent Book Wins Prestigious PIASA Award
We are delighted to announce that Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery, edited by Halina Goldberg and Nancy Sinkoff (Rutgers University Press, 2023), has been honored with the Anna M. Cienciala Award for Best-Edited Multi-Authored Scholarly Volume by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA). This accolade recognizes the… Read more »
Alison Mero (Ph.D., 2014) Honored with Prestigious H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Award
We are proud to announce that Alison Mero (Ph.D., 2014), along with co-editor Christina Fuhrmann, has been awarded the H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Award for their book Opera and British Print Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century (Clemson University Press, 2023). The H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Award recognizes exceptional scholarship on eighteenth- to… Read more »
IU Musicology Hosting Series of Events on Kavalier and Clay
In one week, the IU Jacobs School of Music Opera Theater will present the world premiere of Mason Bates and Gene Scheer’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay., a new opera co-produced with the Metropolitan Opera. The show portrays two cousins in 1940s New York City—a refugee from wartime Prague and a closeted queer… Read more »
IU Musicology at AMS 2024
November 14–17, 2024 2024 Annual Meeting Website Palmer House Hilton Hotel | Chicago, Illinois Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Networking Reception Saturday, Nov. 16 | 9:30–11:30 PM | Clark 5 (7th floor, Palmer House Hilton Hotel) Conference Schedule View the Searchable Online Program Wednesday, November 13 Tenth New Beethoven Research Conference… Read more »
Doctoral Research Trips to Germany and Austria, and Martinique
Each year, students in the IU Department of Musicology have the opportunity to apply for grants and fellowships that support travel, research, and study abroad. These funds, generously provided by donors and departmental supporters, help students access archives, participate in language programs, and engage with primary sources and cultural contexts crucial to their research. This… Read more »
Recent Ph.D. graduate Nicolette van den Bogerd awarded AWSS Graduate Essay Prize
The Jacobs School of Music Department of Musicology is proud to announce that Dr. Nicolette van den Bogerd (Ph.D., 2024), currently a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington, has been awarded the 2024 Graduate Essay Prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies… Read more »
“La conquista discográfica de América Latina”, a new book by Sergio Ospina Romero
Between 1903 and 1926 the Victor Talking Machine Company deployed more than twenty sound recording expeditions to all over Latin America and the Caribbean. Sergio Ospina Romero new book, La conquista discográfica de América Latina, is the first comprehensive cultural history of those expeditions and, by way of them, of the dawn of the… Read more »
Doctoral Research and Language-Learning Trips to Germany and Austria, the Netherlands, and Italy
Students in the IU Department of Musicology have the opportunity to apply for grants and fellowships that support travel, research, and study abroad. These funds, generously provided by donors and department supporters, help students access archives, participate in language programs, and engage with primary sources and cultural contexts crucial to their research. Learn more about… Read more »
Ives Festival Awarded IU Public Arts and Humanities Project Grant
In an effort spearheaded by Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Research, and Creative Activity Professor Judah Cohen and Distinguished Professor Emeritus J. Peter Burkholder, the IU Jacobs School of Music has secured a $25,000 IU Public Arts and Humanities Project grant. This funding will make the upcoming Charles Ives at 150 festival accessible for Indiana… Read more »