CDI Professor Dan Charnas Wins The Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism

As reported in Billboard, the winners of the 56th annual ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards for outstanding books, articles, liner notes, and music broadcast have been announced. Congratulations to our very own Professor Dan Charnas for receiving The Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism!

Dan wins this award for his article on the popular, but "nameless" musical genre that is the foundation for Sabrina Carpenter’s "Espresso," "The Musical History Lesson Buried Beneath the Song of the Summer," published by Slate.

Dan Charnas is Associate Professor and Director of Writing, History, and Emergent Media at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. Dan is also the author of New York Times best-seller, "Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm."

Read Dan's award-winning Slate article and scholarly look at "Espresso" here: https://slate.com/culture/2024/06/sabrina-carpenter-espresso-song-summer-boogie-post-disco.html