Department of Music

Ruby Erickson Awarded AADMS Prize from SEM

Musicology & Ethnomusicology PhD candidate Ruby Erickson earns honor from the Society for Ethnomusicology

Ruby Erickson was awarded the AADMS (African and African Diasporic Music Section) African Diaspora Student Paper Prize for her 2023 Society for Ethnomusicology presentation, “'My Grandparents are Embracing Me': Transmission, Performance, and Vocal Collaging in Cabo Verdean New England.”

Ruby Erickson's scholarly interests include music, migration, and diaspora; musics of the Black Atlantic; economic ethnomusicology; voice studies; and engaged research methods. Her current research centers on the music-making communities of Cape Verdean Americans in New England, and includes a collaborative podcasting project, Sounds from the Eleventh Star. You can learn more about Ruby at her website.