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The British Forum for Ethnomusicology invites submissions for the BFE Book Prize to recognize outstanding scholarship in ethnomusicology written in English. Both monographs and edited volumes published in 2016 or 2017 will be eligible for the 2018 prize. (Co)authors and (co)editors must all be BFE members at the time of submission, while contributors to edited collections are welcome to join: https://bfe.org.uk/join-bfe
No book may be entered more than once for this prize. This prestigious award will be presented at the BFE annual conference at the University of Newcastle from 12-15 April 2018 and carries a prize of £100. The winner of the prize will also be invited to be on the panel for the next book prize.
To enter, please send THREE copies of the nominated book, together with a brief biography of the author(s)/editor(s) and contact email address by post to the Chair below. If the book is published as an ebook, or is only published as an ebook, then this will be eligible for submission and three hard copies will not be required. For ebook submissions, the Chair of the Prize Committee must be provided with full details of electronic access before the deadline (along with the brief biography of author(s)/editor(s) and contact email address), so that all the three members of the prize committee can access the ebook. If the committee experiences problems with accessing ebooks then the submission may be disqualified.
Deadline: Friday 10 November 2017 at the latest. Hard copies of books must be received before this deadline. In the case of ebooks full access details must emailed to the Chair before the deadline.
For books scheduled to be published in November or December 2017, a pdf of the entire book manuscript can be submitted by the 10 November deadline to the Committee Chair by email, followed by submission of three printed copies of the book (or ebook access) asap after publication. Regrettably, the prize committee will not be able to return the hard copies of books submitted for the prize.
Contact Details for BFE Book Prize Submissions:
Dr Frederick Moehn
Committee Chair, BFE Book Prize
Music Department King’s College London
2C, South East Block
Strand, London
WC2R 2LS
United Kingdom
frederick.moehn
kcl.ac.uk
The BFE Student Prize for 2017 recognises an outstanding paper presented by a student at this year’s BFE Annual Conference, hosted by the University of Sheffield (20-23 April 2017). We are delighted to award the prize to Hamidreza Salehyar of University of Toronto, and to give honourable mention to Lyndsey Hoh of Oxford University: their papers are described below. We would also like to thank everyone who submitted a paper this year, and encourage students to submit papers for next year’s conference at the University of Newcastle in 2018. Please see our 
Brass Instruments in Benin and Experiences of the Historical - Lyndsey Hoh
