Carol A. Hess has published books and articles on the music of Spain and the Americas. Her work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and the New York Public Library, among other entities. She received the Society for American Music’s Irving Lowens Article Award, and her book Manuel de Falla and Modernism in Spain, 1898–1936 (University of Chicago Press, 2001) won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and the American Musicological Society’s Robert M. Stevenson Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in Iberian Music, in addition to other prizes.