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----------------------- The African Music Section (AfMS) of The Society for Ethnomusicology invites submissions for the 2014 Kwabena Nketia Book Prize to recognize a book of significance in English on a topic relevant to African musical performance. Books published in 2010-2013 are considered for the 2014 prize. No book may be submitted more than once for consideration. The books that your press has published that we are most interested in include: If interested, please send three (3) copies of each book, POSTMARKED BEFORE JANUARY 1 2014, to: The Kwabena Nketia Book Prize Chair c/o Business Office The Society for Ethnomusicology Morrison Hall 005 Indiana University 1165 E 3rd St. Bloomington, IN 47405-3700 Sincerely, Frank Gunderson, Ph.D. Chair, 2014 Kwabena Nketia Book Prize Committee African Music Section (AfMS) of The Society for Ethnomusicology ******* African Music Section (AfMS) Kwabena Nketia Book Prize The Society for Ethnomusicology Purpose: This prize will recognize a book of significance in English on a topic relevant to African musical performance. Eligibility: The African Music Section welcomes a broad scope of books on musical performance or implications for music scholarship based on the African continent or the global African diaspora. Books on the African Diaspora should have depth of research on African music and practices. Edited volumes are not eligible. Reprints or new editions of books are not eligible unless substantially revised from the original. Authors need not be members of SEM or the African Music Section of SEM. Prize: $200 Regularity: Awarded bi-annually, in even years, to a book published in the previous four years (e.g. the 2014 prize will be given to a book published in 2010-2013). Administration: The Prize Committee will consist of three readers, including two acknowledged senior scholars, who are members of good standing in the African Music Section and SEM. The decision will be announced at the Section Meeting during the SEM Annual Meeting. Application Process: Applicants should send three (3) copies of the book to the Prize Committee through the SEM Business Office. Books may be nominated by individuals, including self-nomination by authors, and by publishing houses and presses. The Prize Committee may also nominate books. No book may be submitted more than once for consideration, i.e., a book nominated in 2012 is not eligible for nomination again in 2014. Application Deadline: Books must be postmarked by January 1 of the year the prize will be awarded. Send Application To: The Kwabena Nketia Book Prize Chair, c/o Business Office, The Society for Ethnomusicology, Morrison Hall 005, Indiana University, 1165 E 3rd St., Bloomington, IN 47405-3700 Recipients: 2010 (Inaugural Prize): Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje. Fiddling in West Africa: Touching the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba Cultures. Indiana University Press, 2008. 2012. Frank Gunderson. We Never Sleep, We Dream of Farming: Sukuma Labor Songs from Western Tanzania. Brill University Press, 2010. --
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