Prof. Ana Maria Ochoa Wins 2015 Merriam Book Prize from Society for Ethnomusicology! January 22, 2016 Prof. Ana Maria Ochoa Wins 2015 Merriam Book Prize from Society for Ethnomusicology! The Department warmly congratulates Prof. Ana Maria Ochoa (Ethnomusicology), whose new book Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth Century Colombia (Duke University Press, 2014) has been co-awarded the prestigious Alan Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology. The Merriam Prize recognizes "the most distinguished, published English-language monograph in the field of ethnomusicology" of the prior two-year period.