Previous Mark Tucker Award Winners


Charles Hiroshi Garrett, "Louis Armstrong and the Sound of Migration" (2002 Conference)

Jewel A. Smith, "Education Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century American Female Seminaries: Music and the 'Ideal of Real Womanhood'" (2003 Conference)

Larry Hamberlin, "Caruso and His Cousins: Portraits of Italian Americans in the Operatic Novelty Songs of Edwards and Madden" (2004 Conference)

Bethany Kissell, "Bernstein's Personal Statement: Jewish and American Identity in the Jeremiah Symphony" (2005 Conference)

Jessica Courtier, "Vocal Fantasies: Race, Masculinity, and Vocal Performance in Rudy Vallee's Musical Doctor and Louis Armstrong's Rhapsody in Black and Blue." (2006 Conference)

Nathan Platte, "The Happy Farmer, the Silent Cinema, and the Art of Musical Quotation in Herbert Stothart's Score for The Wizard of Oz (1939)" (2007 Conference)

Loren Kajikawa, "Eminem's 'My Name Is': Signifyin(g) Whiteness, Rearticulating Race." (2008 Conference)

Christine Fena, "The 'Piano Technician' and his 'Unfortunate Piano': Henry Cowell in the Machine Age." (2009 Conference)

William Cheng, "A Question of Co-Hobbitation: Towards a Musical Democracy in The Lord of the Rings Online" (2010 Conference)