Awards

30 October 2002 |

Sam Davis
Architecture Professor Sam Davis and Larkin Street Youth Services won third place in the Metlife Foundation Excellence in Affordable Housing awards program. The $10,000 award is for their San Francisco Assisted Care and Aftercare Facility for youth with HIV and AIDS.

William Shack
The American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers has named “Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story Between the Great Wars” by the late Professor of Anthropology William Shack as a recipient of its Deems Taylor Special Recognition Award.

Published in 2001 by University of California Press, “Harlem in Montmartre” discusses the small but dynamic community of African American jazz musicians who settled in Paris between the world wars, creating a vibrant expatriate musical scene and introducing jazz to the French.

Deems Taylor Awards are presented annually to American authors and journalists for books, articles, and liner notes on the subject of music. “Harlem in Montmartre” was chosen for excellence in the “pop books” category; it will be honored at a Dec. 4 ceremony in New York City.