AMS - Lewis Lockwood Award for Outstanding Work of Musicological Scholarship

Organization: American Musicological Society

The Lewis Lockwood Award honors each year a musicological book of exceptional merit published during the previous year in any language and in any country by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career who is a member of the AMS or a citizen or permanent resident of Canada or the United States. "Early stages" of the career is typically indicated by time from completion of the Ph.D. degree, or academic appointment at a non-tenured level, or position of the book among the initial items of the author"s bibliography. "Previous year" refers to the copyright year as found on the copyright page of the book. The award committee will encourage or, if necessary, limit eligibility according to these general guidelines.The committee, consisting of five scholars, will entertain, but will not be limited to, nominations from any individual and will choose a small group of finalists from among all the candidates, from which a single winner will be selected. At the committee's discretion, it may choose to name a maximum of three finalists. The winner will receive a monetary prize and a certificate, and the finalists a certificate, conferred at the Annual Business Meeting and Awards Presentation of the Society by the chair of the committee. An individual may receive the award only once, but winning the Lockwood Award will not preclude an author from also winning the Otto Kinkeldey Award at a later stage of her or his career.