2003 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is pleased to announce the winners of the 2003 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. The awards will be presented at a ceremony at ARSC's 2004 annual conference. Additional information about the ARSC Conference and the ARSC Awards for Excellence may be found on the association's website.

Begun in 1991, the ARSC Awards for Excellence are awarded to authors of books, articles, or recording liner notes to recognize those publishing the very best work today in recorded sound research. In giving these awards, ARSC recognizes the contributions of these individuals, aims to encourage others to emulate their high standards, and hopes to promote readership of their work. Two awards are presented annually in each category for Best History and Best Discography, and others are acknowledged with Certificates of Merit. Awards are presented to both the authors and publishers of winning publications.

The 2003 Awards for Excellence honor works published in 2002.

[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Popular Music ]

Best History

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music

by Mark Allan Powell

(Hendrickson Publishers)

[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Folk or Ethnic Music ]

Best History

Certificate of Merit

Reggae & Caribbean Music

by Dave Thompson

(Backbeat Books)

Sam Manning: the Complete Output, 1924-1930, Vols. 1 & 2

by John Cowley and Steve Shapiro

(notes to Jazz Oracle CD set)

[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Country Music ]

Best History

Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?: The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music

by Mark Zwonitzer and Charles Hirshberg

(Simon & Schuster)

Country Music Sources: A Biblio-Discography of Commercially Recorded Traditional Music

by Guthrie T. Meade, Richard K. Spottswood, and Douglas S. Meade

(Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries in Association with the John Edwards Memorial Forum)

[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Classical Music ]

Best History

George Crumb: a Bio-Bibliography

by David Cohen

(Greenwood Press)

Emanuel Feuermann

by Annette Morreau

(Yale University Press)

[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Rock, R&B, or Soul Music ]

Best History

Every Sound There Is: the Beatles' Revolver and the Transformation of Rock and Roll

by Russell Reising

(Ashgate)

Brown-Eyed Handsome Man: The Life of Chuck Berry

by Bruce Pegg

(Routledge)

[ Best Historical Research on Record Jazz Music ]

Best History	Best History
Rat Race Blues: The Musical Life of Gigi Gryce by Noal Cohen and Michael Fitzgerald (Berkeley Hills Books)	Something to Live For: the Music of Billy Strayhorn by Walter van de Leur (Oxford University Press)
Certificate of Merit	Certificate of Merit
Charlie Barnet: An Illustrated Biography and Discography of the Swing Era Big Band Leader by Dan Mather (McFarland)	A Love Supreme: Thee Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album by Ashley Kahn (Viking)