Denise Von Glahn is the Curtis Mayes Orpheus Professor of Musicology at Florida State University where she is also the coordinator of the Musicology Area and director of the Center for Music of the Americas. She has written three previous books: The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape , which won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 2004, Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices , co-authored with Michael Broyles, and which won the Irving S. Lowens Award in 2009, and Music and the Skillful Listener: American Women Compose the Natural World , which won the Pauline Alderman Award in 2015.