Ernest Bloch Lectures Visiting Professorship
University
University of California-Berkeley, Department of Music
· 2022
Alan Merriam Prize
Scholarly Society
Society for Ethnomusicolopgy
· 2018
For Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid, awarded annual for "the most distinguished English-language monograph in the field of ethnomusicology."
Gregory Bateson Book Prize
Other
Society for Cultural Anthropology
· 2018
For Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid (Duke UP, 2017).
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellows
National
American Council of Learned Societies
· 2007
National
National Humanities Center
· 2007
Jaap Kunst Prize
National
Society for Ethnomusicology
· 2005
Finalist, best research in recorded popular music
International
Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards of Excellence
· 2004
For Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio (Duke University Press, 2003).
Thomas Langford Lecture Award
University
Duke University
· 2004
For recently tenured faculty.
Rockefeller Fellowship in the Black Performing Arts
University
Stanford Humanities Center
· 2001