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2009 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. The awards will be presented at a ceremony at ARSC's 2010 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 2009 Awards for Excellence honor works published in 2008.
[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, R&B, or Soul Music ]
| Best History | Certificate of Merit |
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I Got Two Wings: Incidents and Anecdotes of the Two Winged Preacher and Electric Guitar Evangelist, Elder Utah Smith by Lynn Abbot (Case Quarter) |
by Alan B. Govenar (Texas A&M Press) |
[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Classical Music ]
| Best History | Best Discography | |
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Charles Ives Omnibus (Monographs & Bibliographies in American Music, No. 18)
by James Mack Burk (Pendragon) |
by James H. North (Scarecrow Press) |
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| Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit | |
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by Kenneth Hamilton (Oxford University Press) |
Sprechstimme in Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire: A Study of Vocal Performance Practice by Aidan Soder (Edwin Mellen Press) |
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[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Country Music ]
| Best Work | Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit |
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Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South by Patrick Huber (University of North Carolina Press) |
by Hazel Dickens and Bill C. Malone (University of Illinois Press) |
Merle Haggard: Concepts Live…1968-1976 by Deke Dickerson (Bear Family) |
[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Folk, Ethnic, or World Music ]
| Best Work | Certificate of Merit | |
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by Anthony Macias (Duke University Press) |
Lemko Folk Music on Wax Cylinders and American Recordings, 1901-1930 by Bogdan Horbal and Walter Maksimovich (self-published) |
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[ Best Historical Research in General History of Recorded Sound ]
| Best Work | Certificate of Merit | |
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Den Talande Maskinen: De Forsta Inspelade Ljuden I Sverige Och Norden (The Talking Machine: The First Recorded Sounds in Sweden and Scandinavia) by Tony Franzén, Gunnar Sundberg, and Lars Thelander (Suomen Äänitearkisto/Finlands Ljudarkiv) |
Sound Media: A Theory of Live Journalism and Musical Recording by Lars Nyre (Routledge) |
[ Best Historical Research on Record Labels ]
| Best History | Best Discography | Certificate of Merit |
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by David Bonner (Scarecrow Press) |
Montgomery Ward Records: A Discography by Allan Sutton (Mainspring Press) |
The Edison Discography (1926-29) by Raymond R. Wile (Mainspring Press) |
[ Best Historical Research on Recorded Jazz Music ]
| Best Work | Best History | Certificate of Merit |
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by Chris DeVito, David Wild, Yasuhiro Fujioka, and Wolf Schmaler; edited by Lewis Porter (Routledge) |
by George E. Lewis (University of Chicago Press) |
by John Fass Morton (Rutgers University Press) |
| Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit |
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by Milt Hinton, David Berger and Holly Maxson (Vanderbilt University Press) |
Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop by Jeremy Yudkin (Indiana University Press) |
by Todd Bryant Weeks (Routledge) |
| Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit | |
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by Gabriel Solis (University of California Press) |
[ Best Historical Research on Recorded Rock or Popular Music ]
| Best Work | Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit |
Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music) by Olivier Julien (Ashgate) |
Mondo Exotica: Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation by Francesco Adinolfi (Duke University Press) |
So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star: The Byrds Day-by-Day, 1965-1973 by Christopher Hjort (Jawbone Press) |
| Certificate of Merit | ||
Hot Burritos: The True Story of The Flying Burrito Brothers by John Einarson and Chris Hillman (Jawbone Press) |
Winners are chosen by the ARSC Awards Committee: five elected judges representing specific fields of study, plus the ARSC President, and the Book Review Editor of the ARSC Journal. The members of the 2009 ARSC Awards Committee are: Robert Iannapollo (Awards Committee Co-Chair); Roberta Freund-Schwartz (Awards Committee Co-Chair); Brenda Nelson-Strauss (Awards Committee); David Seubert (ARSC President); Jim Farrington (Book Review Editor, ARSC Journal); David Hamilton (Classical Music Judge); Kip Lornell (Judge-at-Large); Dan Morgenstern (Jazz Music Judge); William L. Schurk (Popular Music Judge); Dick Spottswood (Judge-at-Large).