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Illinois Musicology Division News

Monk's Music, a book by Gabriel Solis, has been awarded a Certificate of Merit for Excellence in Historical Research in Recorded Sound, Jazz Division, from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections.

Bruno Nettl has been awarded an Emeritus Fellowship for the year 2009–10 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He will use it to continue his studies in the intellectual history of ethnomusicology.

Christina Bashford will be on leave in Spring 2010 as a faculty fellow of the Center for Advanced Study. Her project, "Violin Culture in Britain and Beyond," is a cultural-historical study of the surge in string instrument making, selling and playing in Britain, central Europe and America, 1880–1930.

Jeffrey Magee has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Musicological Society for a two-year term beginning in 2011.

"From Page to Stage: Wagner as Regisseur," an essay by Katherine Syer, was published last month in Richard Wagner and His World, edited by Thomas S. Grey and published by Princeton University Press.

Joseph Jones and William Kinderman have co-edited a book titled Genetic Criticism and the Creative Process: Essays from Music, Literature, and Theater (University of Rochester Press) scheduled for release next month.

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