The Danijela Kulezic-Wilson Book Prize was established in January 2022 to recognize outstanding musicological scholarship among members of the Society for Musicology in Ireland as part of the Society’s aims to foster musical scholarship in all its forms. Awarded triennially since 2024, the prize is named in memory of the distinguished Ireland-based Serbian musicologist Danijela Kulezic-Wilson, who passed away in 2021.
A prize of €300 is awarded for a musicological monograph authored or co-authored by a member of the SMI, with a copyright date in the three calendar years prior to the year of the award. The prize is adjudicated by a panel of three judges and the award is made at the SMI’s annual plenary conference.
2022:
The inaugural prize was awarded to Joanna K. Love for Soda Goes Pop: Pepsi-Cola Advertising and Popular Music (University of Michigan Press, 2019). In addition, the panel of judges awarded an Honourable Mention to Nicole Grimes for Brahms’s Elegies: The Poetics of Loss in Nineteenth Century German Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
2024:
The Prize for 2024 was awarded to Lonán Ó Briain for Voices of Vietnam: A Century of Radio, Red Music, and Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Queries may be sent to bookprize@musicologyireland.com. The Book Prize Committee is currently Kevin Boushel, Nicole Grimes, and Maria McHale.