Clinton D. Young, Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, has been recognized by the American Musicological Society for his scholarship.  His first book, Music Theater and Popular Nationalism in Spain, 1880-1930, received the Robert M. Stevenson Award at the recent annual meeting of the AMS in 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 nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  Young traces this history through the use of musical scores, theater criticism from newspapers of the period, and other archival sources.  “I was astounded when I received the news,” said Young.  “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 like the University of Connecticut and Rutgers University.

Dr. Young has been a faculty member at UAM since 2009.  In addition to his faculty duties, he is 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 SEARK Concert Association.

For further information, contact the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at (870) 460-1047.

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