Society for American Music. His book Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century, published by University of California Press in 2008, was awarded the Irving Lowens Memorial Book Award by the Society for American Music. He now serves as editor-in-chief for The Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition. James Hepokoski has taught at Oberlin College Conservatory (1978-1988), at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (1988-1999), and is currently Professor of Musicology at Yale University. He was the co-editor of the musicological journal 19-Century Music from 1992 to 2005. His publications include "Beyond the Sonata Principle," Journal of the American Musicological Society 55 (2002) and Elements of Sonata Theory (with Warren Darcy, OUP 2006), which was the recipient of the Society for Music Theory's 2008 Wallace Berry Award. Joseph S.C.Lam is Interim Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan and Professor of Music (Musicology) at the School of Music, Theater and Dance, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a former (1997-2009) director of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments (UM), and is the author of State Sacrifices and Music in Ming China (SUNY). Lam has also published extensively in academic journals and monographs, which include "Chinese Music and Its Globalized Past and Present" (Macalester International, 2008) and "Imperial Music Agency in Ming (1368-1644) Music Culture," in Culture, Courtiers and Competition: The Ming Court (Harvard, 2008). Richard Leppert is Regents Professor and Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor in Department of Cultural Studies and