Winners of 2023 AMS-JSMSG Awards

Lynette Bowring
Yale University
Rebecca Cypess
Rutgers University
Liza Malamut
The Newberry Consort
Samantha Madison Cooper
University of Pennsylvania

The Jewish Studies and Music Study Group of the AMS is pleased to announce its annual publication awards to the following authors:

Lynette Bowring, Rebecca Cypess and Liza Malamut (editors)
Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy: New Perspectives. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022.

Samantha Madison Cooper
‘I’d Rather [Sound] Blue’: Listening to Agency, Hybridity, and Intersectionality in the Vocal Recordings of Fanny Brice and Barbra Streisand,” Journal of the Society for American Music 16, no. 1 (February 2022), 24–46.

These awards were presented at the 2023 joint conference of the AMS/SMT in Denver. The JSMSG Board wishes to thank the volunteer members of the study group who served as readers for this year’s competitive group of submissions. Previous award winners can be viewed here.

An event honoring the winners and reading their work will be held on June 20, 2024. Stay tuned for more information!

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