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The Society for American Music (SAM) was founded in 1975 and was first named the Sonneck Society in honor of Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, early Chief of the Music Division in the Library of Congress and pioneer scholar of American music. The Society for American Music is a non-profit scholarly and educational organization incorporated in the District of Columbia as a 501 (c) (3) and is a constituent member of the American Council of Learned Societies. It is based at the Stephen Foster Memorial on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
About
editThe mission of the Society for American Music is to stimulate the appreciation, performance, creation, and study of American music in all its diversity. "America" is understood to embrace both American, including North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean, as well as aspects of these cultures everywhere in the world.
The Society holds an annual conference, usually in March, featuring scholarly talks, exhibits, and performances.
Publications
editIn 2007, the Society began publishing its own journal, the Journal of the Society for American Music (JSAM). From 1983 through 2006, the Society had published the journal American Music in collaboration with the University of Illinois Press.
Lifetime Achievement Award
editThe Lifetime Achievement Award is presented by the Society "in recognition of the recipient's significant and substantial lifetime achievement in scholarship, performance, teaching, and/or support of American Music."[1]
Award recipients are:[1]
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Marva Griffin Carter[2] |
| 2019 | John Graziano |
| 2019 | Raoul Camus |
| 2018 | Deane Root |
| 2017 | Randy Weston |
| 2016 | Dale Cockrell |
| 2015 | Josephine Wright[3] |
| 2014 | Pete Seeger |
| 2013 | Judith Tick |
| 2012 | Donald William Krummel |
| 2011 | Paul E. Bierley and Kate Van Winkle Keller |
| 2010 | Wayne Shirley |
| 2009 | Horace Clarence Boyer |
| 2008 | Bill C. Malone[4] |
| 2007 | Vivian Perlis |
| 2006 | Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. |
| 2005 | Dena Epstein |
| 2004 | Adrienne Fried Block |
| 2003 | H. Wiley Hitchcock |
| 2002 | Charles Hamm[5] |
| 2001 | Richard Crawford |
| 2000 | Billy Taylor and Eileen Southern |
| 1999 | Robert Stevenson |
References
edit- ^ a b "Lifetime Achievement Awards". Society for American Music. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ^ "2020 Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. Marva Griffin Carter – Georgia State University News – College of the Arts, Faculty, Music". Georgia State News Hub. 2020-06-22. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
- ^ "COW professor earns one of highest honors in field of musicology". The Daily Record. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ^ Moe, Doug (2020-06-15). "A fond farewell to Bill and Bobbie Malone". Channel3000.com. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ^ Woolfe, Zachary (2011-10-23). "Charles Hamm, Author on American Popular Music, Dies at 86". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-02.