The Film and Multimedia Interest Group grants an annual publication award to a piece of scholarship that aligns with the group’s mission. The recipient of the award is announced at the interest group business meeting held at the annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory.
FMIG Publication Award Recipients
2025
Committee: William Ayers (chair), Frank Lehman (2024 award winner), Abigail Shupe
- Julianne Grasso. “Affective Zones: The Spaces of Possibility in Video Game Music.” Music and the Moving Image 17, no. 3 (2024). https://doi.org/10.5406/19407610.17.3.01
- Nathaniel Mitchell. “Variations on a Theme by K. K. Slider: Memory and Play in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.” SMT-V 9, no. 4 (2023). https://www.smt-v.org/archives/volume9.html#variations-on-a-theme-by-k-k-slider-memory-and-play-in-animal-crossing-new-horizons
2024
Committee: William O’Hara (chair), Janet Bourne (2023 award winner), Chelsea Oden
- Karen Cook. “8-Bit Affordances: Jun Chikuma’s Soundtrack to Faxanadu.” Music Theory Online 29, no. 3 (2023). https://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.23.29.3/mto.23.29.3.cook.php
- Frank Lehman. “How to Write Music for Rolling Boulders.” The New York Times (July 7, 2023). https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/07/opinion/indiana-jones-movie-john-williams-music.html
2023
Committee: Charity Lofthouse (chair), Julianne Grasso, Steven Janisse
- Janet Bourne. “Hearing Film Music Topics outside the Movie Theatre: Listening Cinematically to Pastorals.” In The Oxford Handbook of Cinematic Listening, edited by Carlo Cenciarelli. Oxford University Press (2021). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190853617.013.15