We are delighted to annouce that Prof. Peter McMurray has been awarded the Royal Musical Association's Edited Book Prize 2025 for the volume he edited with Priyasha Mukhopadhyay: Acoustics of Empire (OUP 2024).
Full details are given here.
The citation reads: 'This highly polished collection significantly shapes its field not only through exploring global histories of sound and sound technologies with new interpretations and in new contexts, but also by creating an interdisciplinary discourse embracing music, history, history of science, literature and political science against a background of postcolonial studies. Drawing on a range of methodologies, the volume consciously seeks to listen to voices that have been historically silenced while probing an impressively wide range of cultural contexts and sound sources. The volume will be relevant to a wide range of scholars well beyond its ethnomusicological core.'
Professor McMurray is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Music: a musicologist, saxophonist, and media artist, his research focuses primarily on the intersection of Islam and sound, especially in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, including recitation, liturgy, theology, and architecture.
We offer our warm congratulations to Peter!
