IASPM Norden Early Career Scholar Award 2024 to Veronika Muchitsch!

18Mar24

IASPM Norden is happy to announce that the recipient of the 2024 IASPM-Norden Early Career Scholar Award is Veronika Muchitsch for:


Muchitsch, Veronika. “Listening to Anohni’s variously vibrating voice: studying transfeminine vocality in 21st-century popular music culture through the concept of vocal figurations.” Popular Music 42, no. 1 (2023): 59–78.


The committee states that:

“Muchitsch’s article gives an engaging and highly original account of the work of singer-songwriter Anonhi, drawing inspiration from a wide array of theoretical discourses across feminist theory, gender studies, and musicology. The jury were unanimously impressed by Muchitsch’s close reading of the sound of Anonhi’s voice and her introduction of the concept of vocal figurations, against her fluent engagement with recent research from trans and queer theory. The article represents contemporary popular music scholarship at its best, combining in-depth analysis with reception studies to offer compelling and timely perspectives on popular music, voice, and gender.”


This year, the committee also chose to award an honourable mention to Zenia Børsen and Jakob Kjær Bødker for:


Børsen, Zenia, and Jakob Kjær Bødker. “Democratic Noise: Improvisation, Democratic Conversation and Free Jazz Mod Paludan.” Seismograf Peer, special issue “What Sounds Do,” edited by Sheppard, Dalla Bontà, Mauruchat, and Schulze (2023). Link<https://seismograf.org/node/20177&gt;.


The committee states that:

“Børsen and Bødker’s article “Democratic Noise” receives an honourable mention for the IASPM Norden Early Career Prize. Placing music at the foreground, their article convincingly calls for novel ways of conceptualizing collectively-improvised music in terms of its democratic potentiality. The jury were particularly impressed with their sonic and theoretical analysis married with their discussion of the wider social context in this highly original case study – Denmark’s Free Jazz Mod Paludan. Their careful, courageous, and exciting writing is all the more commendable having come from the work of two Bachelor students.”


The assessment committee for this year’s award were Áine Mangaoang (chair), Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen, and Mikkel Vad (ex officio secretary).

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