The David Kraehenbuehl Prize, named for the visionary founding editor of the Journal of Music Theory, was established in 2008 and is given biennially for the best article published in JMT by a scholar untenured at the time of submission. It carries a cash award of $2,000 and is determined by a selection committee of scholars unaffiliated with Yale University or with any of the eligible authors. The two-year cycle on which the current award is based was 2020–21, or volumes 64 and 65 of the journal. The selection committee for the award consisted of consisted of Victoria Malawey (chair), Nathan Martin, and Joti Rockwell.
The Journal of Music Theory is pleased to announce that the 2022 David Kraehenbuehl Prize is presented to Rebecca Simpson-Litke for her article “Flipped, Broken, and Paused Clave: Dancing through Metric Ambiguities in Salsa Music,” which appeared in volume 65, number 1 of JMT...
