Professor Alejandro Madrid’s article "Secreto a Voces: Excess, Performance, and Jotería in Juan Gabriel’s Vocality” has won the American Musicological Society's LGBTQ Study Group's 2018 Philip Brett Award, which recognizes “exceptional musicological work in the field of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/transsexual studies completed during the previous two calendar years." The award, which will be presented at the annual meeting of the AMS in Boston this November, reflects the committee’s admiration for "the detail and sensitivity of [Madrid’s] exploration of queer embodiments and affects in a multi-generational popular culture outside of Anglo-American markets, and with [his] skillful melding of personal reflection, video archival materials, and online ethnography.”
In addition, it was announced in May that Professor Madrid was elected to join the board of AMS as Director at Large.
