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The Woody Guthrie Award  ::  Graduate Student Paper Prize


The Woody Guthrie Award
A Book Award from the US Branch of
The International Association for the Study of Popular Music

2007 Woody Guthrie Award Winner

Heidi Feldman. Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving the African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific. Wesleyan University Press.

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Previous Woody Guthrie Award Winners

2006 - Steven F. Pond. Head Hunters: The Making of Jazz's First Platinum Album. University of Michigan Press

Honorable Mentions: Paul Austerlitz, Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity (Wesleyan University Press); Lisa Rhodes, Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press); and Daniel Goldmark, Tunes for 'Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon (University of California Press)

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2005 - Bryan McCann. Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil. Duke University Press

Honorable Mention: Tim Lawrence. Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979. Duke University Press

2004 - Guthrie Ramsey. Race Music: Black Cultures From Bebop to Hip-Hop. University of California Press

2003 - Bernard Gendron. Between Monmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant Garde. University of Chicago Press

2002 - CO-WINNERS:
• Gary Giddins. Bing Crosby: A Pocketful Of Dreams: The Early Years 1903-1940. Back Bay Books.
• Theodore Gracyk. I Wanna Be Me: Rock Music and the Politics of Identity. Temple University Press (Sound Matters Series)

2001- Norman Stolzoff. Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture In Jamaica. Duke University Press

2000 - Adelaida Reyes. Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free: Music and the Vietnamese Experience. Temple University Press

Runner up: Steve Waksman. Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience. Harvard University Press

1999 - Frances R. Aparicio. Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures. Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England

Runner up: Daniel Cavicchi. Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning among Springsteen Fans. Oxford University Press

1998 - Scott DeVeaux. The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History. University of Califonia Press.

1997 - Paul Théberge. Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/Consuming Technology. Wesleyan University Press.

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