| Gage Averill is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the popular music of the Caribbean. Formerly Chair of the Music Department at NYU, Professor Averill has also taught at Columbia University, Wesleyan University and as a visiting professor at Princeton. His book A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti (University of Chicago Press, 1997) won the Association of Recorded Sound Collections Award for Best Research in the Field of Recorded Folk and Ethnic Music, 1998, and his second monograph, Four Parts, No Waiting: A Social History of American Barbershop Harmony, was named an “Outstanding Academic Title for 2004" by Choice, the review magazine of the American Library Association and was awarded the 2004 Alan P. Merriam Prize recognizing the most distinguished, published English-language monograph in the field of ethnomusicology and the Irving Lowens Award for Best Book from the Society for American Music. He is also an editor of Making and Selling Culture (with Richard Ohmann et al, Wesleyan University Press, 1996). His shorter publications have appeared in edited volumes, journals, textbooks, and encyclopedias. |