The Department of Music is pleased to share that Jessica Swanston Baker, Associate Professor in the Department of Music and Director of Graduate Studies, received the 2025 Royal Musical Association/Cambridge University Press Outstanding Monograph Book Prize for her book Island Time: Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and Nevis (University of Chicago Press). In Island Time, Baker examines wylers, a musical form from St. Kitts and Nevis that is characterized by speed.
The Royal Musical Association wrote: "The panel commended this monograph for its extensive fieldwork, the use of speed as an innovative conceptual basis and its foundation in the author’s family history research, all of which made the book an engaging read. The book makes a strongly original contribution to the study of music of the Caribbean."
Island Time can be purchased through The University of Chicago Press.