The IASPM Benelux and the Vereniging Nederlandse Pop Podia and Festivals (VNPF) invites student applicants to apply for the Bachelors and Masters Popular Music Thesis Prize. This prize honors outstanding research by students (active in a Dutch university) writing about popular music. The prize is to award the best-researched and best-written BA and MA thesis on some subject related to popular music. The winning thesis will incorporate one or more relevant perspectives which might reflect a broad range of academic and professional fields including but not limited to sociology, musicology, media studies, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, journalism, economics, performance studies, and/or history. Both the BA and MA thesis must be written in either Dutch or English.
The prize money is €200 for the MA Thesis Prize winner and €200 for the BA Thesis Prize Winner plus one year of free IASPM Benelux membership. The award ceremony is planned to take place during the IASPM Benelux conference, 8–9 October 2021 in Antwerp.
Guidelines
All materials must be submitted by 15 December 2020 in pdf form to the secretary of IASPM Benelux, Chris Tonelli: c.j.tonelli@rug.nl.
Please make sure to include the following three documents in your digital application:
A digital copy of the student’s Graduation Certificate.
BA or MA Thesis including:
1. Title of thesis,
2. Short abstract (200–300 words),
3. Full thesis text (please cross out any passages referring to your name or your university name on the thesis to ensure anonymity).
Separate Title Page with:
1. Student’s name,
2. Student’s institution and major,
3. Thesis supervisor,
4. Education period (study dates),
5. Degree granted (BA, MA or Pre-Master),
6. Student’s email and address.