NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- October 16, 2006 -- The American Society of Composers, Authors &
Publishers (ASCAP) has announced the winners of the 39th Annual ASCAP Deems
Taylor Awards for outstanding print, broadcast and new media coverage of
music. The winners will be honored at a special reception on Thursday,
December 7, 2006 at The Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln
Center, The Allen Room, Broadway at 60th Street, New York City. Over the
years, tens of thousands of dollars have been distributed in cash prizes to
winning authors, journalists and broadcast producers and personalities.
The ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award honors two programs this year.
They are "The Bob Edwards Show" (Bob Edwards, host; Ed McNulty, producer;
and Tish Valva, executive producer), which is produced at XM Satellite
Radio; and "World Café" (David Dye, host and producer; Kimberly Junod,
producer and Bruce Warren, executive producer), which originates from WXPN
in Philadelphia and is nationally syndicated. Cited in the Television
Broadcast category is the cable channel, "Ovation: The Arts Network" (Chad
E. Gutstein, Executive Vice President; Charles Segars, Chief Executive
Officer and Ronald Garfield, Chief Operating Officer).
The ASCAP Deems Taylor Internet Award honors the concert music blog, "Night
After Night" (
www.nightafternight.blogs.com), written by Steve Smith.
The Timothy White Award for Outstanding Musical Biography in the pop music
field honors "The Mayor of MacDougal Street: A Memoir," by Dave Van Ronk
with Elijah Wald, published by Da Capo Press. This award was established
to honor the memory of Billboard Magazine editor Timothy White, who passed
away in early 2002. Mr. White was himself a former Deems Taylor recipient,
and was the writer of acclaimed biographies of Bob Marley, Brian Wilson,
and James Taylor.
The Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography in the
concert music field honors Phillip Ramey for "Irving Fine, an American
Composer in His Time," published by Pendragon Press. This award was
established to honor the memory of Slonimsky (1894-1995), the
Russian-American composer, conductor, musicologist and critic. Slonimsky
was the writer of "Baker's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Thesaurus of
Scales and Melodic Patterns, The Lexicon of Musical Invective and Perfect
Pitch," an autobiography.
The Béla Bartók Award for Outstanding Ethnomusicological Book honors Nancy
Guy for "Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan," published by University of
Illinois Press. This award honors the memory of Bartók (1881-1945), the
great Hungarian-American composer and ethnomusicologist.
The authors and publishers of the books to be honored at the ceremony are:
-- Julia Blackburn for "With Billie," published by Pantheon Books
-- Anna Marie Busse Berger for "Medieval Music and the Art of Memory,"
published by University of California Press
-- Jeff Chang for "Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hip
Generation," published by St. Martin's Press/Picador
-- Boris Gasparov for "Five Operas and a Symphony," published by Yale
University Press
-- Kenneth Morgan for "Fritz Reiner: Maestro and Martinet," published by
University of Illinois Press
-- Tom Piazza for "Understanding Jazz: Ways to Listen," published by
Random House
-- Michael V. Pisani for "Imagining Native America in Music," published
by Yale University Press
-- Doug Ramsey for "Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul
Desmond," published by Parkside Publications
-- George Rochberg for "The Aesthetics of Survival, A Composer's View of
Twentieth-Century Music," published by University of Michigan Press
The writers and editors of journal, magazine and newspaper articles, and
liner notes, and their respective publishers to be honored are:
-- Michael Beckerman and Jan Vogler for their liner notes, "The Secrets
of Dvorák's Cello Concerto," released by Sony Classical, Sony/BMG
Entertainment
-- Sally Bick for her article, "Of Mice and Men: Copland, Hollywood, and
American Musical Modernism," published by American Music
-- Jeff Gordinier for his articles, "The Virtuoso" and "The Strange Art
of the Male Soprano," published by Details
-- Ernest Hardy for his liner notes, "Chet Baker: Career, 1952-1988,"
released by Shout! Factory
-- Marya Hornbacher for her article, "Return of a Virtuoso," published by
Smithsonian
-- Joshua Kosman for his article, "Thoroughly Modern Music," published by
Symphony
-- John McDonough for his article, "Elegant Vintage," published by
Downbeat
-- Elizabeth Mendez Berry for her article, "Love Hurts," published by
Vibe
-- David Ritz for his liner notes, "Johnny 'Guitar' Watson: The Funk
Anthology," released by Shout! Factory
-- W. Anthony Sheppard for his article, "Cinematic Realism, Reflexivity
and the American 'Madame Butterfly' Narratives," published by Cambridge
Opera Journal
In addition, ASCAP Deems Taylor Special Recognition Awards will be
presented to:
-- The Bard Music Festival Princeton Paperbacks
-- David Jenness and Don Velsey for their book, "Classic American Popular
Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000," published by Routledge
-- Vivian Perlis and Libby Van Cleve for their ongoing series, "An Oral
History of American Music," published by Yale University Press
-- Bob Spitz for "The Beatles," published by Little, Brown and Company
-- Katy St. Clair for her article, "A Very Special Concert," published by
SF Weekly
The members of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards Panel for 2006 are Charles
Dodge, Julie Flanders, David Massengill, Larry John McNally, Richard
Miller, Paul Moravec, Frank Oteri, Matthew Shipp, and Wesley Stace.
About ASCAP
Established in 1914, ASCAP is the first and leading U.S. Performing Rights
Organization representing the world's largest repertory totaling over 8
million copyrighted musical works of every style and genre from more than
250,000 composer, lyricist and music publisher members. ASCAP also
represents the repertories created by the international affiliates of 70
foreign performing rights organizations. ASCAP protects the rights of its
members and foreign affiliates by licensing the public performances of
their copyrighted works and distributing royalties based upon surveyed
performances. ASCAP is the only American Performing Rights Organization
owned and governed by its writer and publisher members.
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