ANNOUNCEMENT: Society for American Music, annual awards

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The Society for American (SAM) announced its annual awards at the 2012 Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC.

Lifetime Achievement Award: Donald Krummel for his distinguished research and teaching on American-music printing, publishing, and resources.

Distinguished Service Citation: Paul Wells in recognition of his sustained contributions to the Society and with grateful appreciation for nurturing our national music.

Irving Lowens Book Award: Larry Stempel for Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 2010.

Irving Lowens Article Award: Amy Lynn Wlodarski for �The Testimonial Aesthetics of Different Trains� Journal of the American Musicological Society Vol. 63, No. 1 (Spring 2010): 99�141.

Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award: Nathan Platte for �Musical Collaboration in the Films of David O. Selznick, 1932-1957� University of Michigan, 2010.

Mark Tucker Award: Glenda Goodman for �A �Phrenzy of Accomplishments�; or, the Power of Sentimental Songs,� the outstanding student paper presented at the 2012 annual SAM conference.