Andrew Snyder Receives the 2026 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize

Andrew Snyder, David McDonald, and Jeremy Reed won the Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology for their book Festival Activism (Indiana University Press 2025).

Festival Activism is a diverse collection of case studies from scholars, performers, and arts administrators, all of whom deftly argue that festivals do more than simply celebrate culture; they also shape culture, creating new forms of aspirational community with direct political effects. The book includes a chapter by INET-md researcher Filippo Bonini Baraldi and CRIA researcher Miguel Moniz. 

This prize marks the third time in four years that a researcher from INET-md has won this prize: Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco in 2024, for Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain: Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Iberian Peninsula, and Andrew Snyder in 2023, for At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice.