The American Musicological Society recently honored Clinton D. Young, an associate professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
Young’s first book, Music Theater and Popular Nationalism in Spain, 1880-1930, received the Robert M. Stevenson Award, according to a news release.
The society recognized Young at the recent annual meeting of the AMS at San Antonio, Texas.
“The Stevenson Award recognizes outstanding scholarship in Iberian music, which consists of music from Spain, Portugal, or Latin America. Music Theater and Popular Nationalism in Spain, which was published by Louisiana State University Press in 2016, examines how different conceptions of Spain’s national identity were developed through popular musical theater in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Young traces this history through the use of musical scores, theater criticism from newspapers of the period, and other archival sources,” according to the release.
Young has been a faculty member at UAM since 2009.
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“I was astounded when I received the news,” Young said. “It is rare to be recognized by a major organization in another discipline for historical research.”
Other nominees for the award include musicology professors from major research institutions such as the University of Connecticut and Rutgers University.
Young is also currently the president of the Arkansas Association of College History Teachers and serves on the board of directors of both the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies and the Southeast Arkansas Concert Association.