PhD candidate in Musicology Daniel Fister was awarded the Lise Waxer Student Paper Prize from the Popular Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology for his paper “Whiteness as Vocal Aesthetics: An Examination of Judging Practices within Collegiate A Cappella Competitions” at the 2019 annual meeting. It was delayed a year in being awarded due to COVID-19. The prize was created to recognize the most distinguished student paper in the ethnomusicology of popular music presented at the SEM annual meeting.
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Esther Viola Kurtz's article "Call, Response, and Compromisso: Ethical Practice in Capoeira of Backland Bahia, Brazil" was published online by Cambridge University Press
Robert Snarrenberg, Associate Professor of Theory at WashU, has received a grant from the WashU Office of Digital Transformation.
Elijah Darden of (WashU25) has been named a Gates Cambridge Scholar, joining an elite group of global changemakers.
