Recognition and Award

ICMuS staff have been winners of or nominees for numerous awards, prizes and fellowships. Here are some highlights since 2008:Nanette de Jong's book Tambú: Curaçao’s African-Caribbean Ritual and the Politics of Memory was nominated for the 2013 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for Best Book in Africana Religions.
Kathryn Tickell was acclaimed Musician of the Year in the BBC Folk Awards 2013.
David Clarke won a visiting fellowship to Cambridge University’s Centre for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) in 2011, to contribute to its programme ‘The Future University’.
Vic Gammon was awarded the Gold Badge of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in 2010. The award is made ‘to those who have made unique or outstanding contributions to the art or science of folk dance, music or song, and/or those who have given exceptional support in furthering the aims of the Society’.
Ian Biddle and Vanessa Knights’ edited book Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location was shortlisted for the 2008 Ruth A. Solie Award for an outstanding collection of musicological essays.
Vic Gammon’s monograph, Drink, Desire and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song, 1600–1900 was shortlisted for The Folklore Society’s Katharine Briggs Folklore Award in 2008.
Kathryn Tickell was awarded the 2008 Queen’s Medal for Music. The Queen’s Medal ‘rewards an individual who has had a major influence on the musical life of the nation’.