![]() The prize has long been criticised as stuffy and irrelevant, with even 2003 winner John Adams saying it has “lost much of the prestige it still carries in other fields like literature and journalism”.īy granting this year’s award to Kendrick Lamar’s album Damn, the Pulitzer board has gone from 0 to 60mph in a spectacular way.ĭamn is as groundbreaking a winner as was Bob Dylan’s Nobel prize for literature last year, though less of a philosophical conundrum. There have only been two jazz winners since then (Ornette Coleman in 2007 and Henry Threadgill in 2016) and, until this year, nothing from the world of popular song. It took 54 years before the judges recognised music beyond the European classical tradition, making Wynton Marsalis’s Blood on the Fields the first jazz winner. ![]() ![]() ![]() T he first Pulitzer prize for music went, in 1943, to William Schuman’s Secular Cantata No 2.
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