Jamie Reuland (Music) has received the Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society for her book, Music and the Making of Medieval Venice.
The Lewis Lockwood Award, one of the two highest awards in the American Musicological Society, honors a book “of exceptional merit published during the previous year by an early-career scholar,” according to the AMS website.
Music and the Making of Medieval Venice was published in October 2023 by Cambridge University Press. The book explores music’s essential role in forming the Venetian empire, focusing on liturgy and civic ritual that interpreted the city’s history and its unique material culture.
The prize committee praised Reuland’s “intensive research,” “panoply of methods” and “audacious range of sources” in their award citation. “[The book] offers new ways for musicologists to think about representation and politics, showcases creative ways to uncover the history and meaning of the musical past, and models an approach to scholarly work that is inviting and engaging.”
Reuland is an assistant professor of music and an associated faculty member in the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies and in the Program in Medieval Studies. She studies the intellectual, aesthetic, and political history of medieval music, and the intersections between musical texts, material culture, and political life in the late-medieval Mediterranean. Her writing has appeared in The Journal of Musicology, Modern Philology, New Medieval Literatures, and Plainsong and Medieval Music. She is currently team teaching in the Humanities Sequence “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture.”
Read more about her book on the Cambridge University Press website.
