IASPM Book Prize
Call for Nominations
Deadline: 22 April 2013

A public award will be given by IASPM for two outstanding first books by a single author on popular music, one in English, the other in any other language, at the 2013 Gijón IASPM conference.

Nominations are invited from IASPM members of books they consider to be possible contenders for such an award. Authors nominated should preferably already be members of IASPM, or should become members of IASPM after being nominated, in order to be eligible. The nominations should be sent at this stage to the chair of the Book Prize committee Franco Fabbri (prof.fabbri@gmail.com) by 22 April 2013 at the latest. When nominating a book, please provide the following details:

– Author, nationality
– Bibliographical information, including language and page count of the book nominated
– Confirmation of IASPM membership, including branch

Authors may either self-nominate, or other members may nominate authors and books they regard worth considering for the award.

Criteria for eligibility: a single author, a member of IASPM, her/his first book (in any language).

Books nominated must have been already published and on the market since 1 January 2011 until 31 December 2012, and a copy of the book must be sent by the publisher or the author to each member of the judging panels (to be announced later), before 30 April 2013.