The Royal Musical Association

2011

For 2011, the Dent medal is awarded to ANNEGRET FAUSER, who has gained a truly international profile as a scholar with a distinguished record of publications and contributions to conferences in the fields of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music and women’s studies. She holds posts as Professor of Music and Adjunct Professor in Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 2011 she is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society.

Professor Fauser studied musicology, art history and philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität in Bonn (where she received her doctorate in 1992), the Université de la Sorbonne-Paris IV, and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. She was chercheur invité at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris (1992–3) and held Fellowships at the University of Melbourne (2001), the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC (2004), and the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Berlin (2009–10). Before joining the faculty at UNC in 2001, she taught musicology at the Université François Rabelais in Tours, the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen, the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and City University, London.

Her book Der Orchestergesang in Frankreich zwischen 1870 und 1920, published in 1994, was followed by Von Wagner zum Wagnérisme: Musik, Literatur, Kunst, Politik, co-edited with Manuela Schwartz (1999); she published Dossier de Presse parisienne: Jules Massenet, ‘Esclarmonde’ (1889) in 2001, and a further volume, Dossier de presse: The Parisian Tannhäuser (1861) in 2009. Other important recent publications include her monograph Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair (2005); ‘Music & Identity’ (special issue of The Musical Quarterly, 2006, co-edited with Tamara Levitz); and (co-edited  with Mark Everist), Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830–1914 (2009), as well as numerous journal articles and contributions to symposia. She is currently editing the correspondence between Nadia Boulanger and Aaron Copland, and writing a monograph on music in the United States during World War II.

2010

For 2010, the Dent medal is awarded to MARTIN STOKES, who is University Lecturer in the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor of St John's College. He previously taught at Queen's University, Belfast (1989-1997) and the University of Chicago (1997-2007).

His research areas are primarily in ethnomusicology and the anthropology of music, with particular emphasis on social and cultural theory. He is also an organist and qanun player. Much of his work has involved the study of music of the Middle Eastern and Islamic world. He has recently published The Republic of Love: Transformations of Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music (University of Chicago Press, 2010), and is currently working on an introduction to the music of the Middle East for Prentice Hall, as well as a survey of theoretical developments in ethnomusicology (co-authored with Martin Clayton) for Oxford University Press.

His previous publications include The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey (1992), Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place (1994), and (co-edited with Philip Bohlman) Celtic Modern: Music Making at the Global Fringe (2004). His article 'Music and the Global Order', Annual Reviews in Anthropology, 33 (2004), was awarded the Jaap Kunst Prize in 2005 by the Society for Ethnomusicology.

A full citation will appear in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association in due course. A study day in honor of Martin Stokes will be held on 17 September 2011.