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2010 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. The awards will be presented at a ceremony at ARSC's 2011 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 2010 Awards for Excellence honor works published in 2009.
[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Gospel, R&B, and Soul ]
| Best History | Certificate of Merit |
Certificate of Merit |
|
by Morten Reff (Music Mentor Books) |
Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues by William Ferris (University of North Carolina Press) |
Hand Me My Travellin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell by Michael Gray (Chicago Review Press) |
[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Classical ]
| Best Work | Certificate of Merit | |
|
|
by Chris Walton (Rochester University Press) |
[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Country Music ]
| Best Work | Certificate of Merit | |
|
Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times by Ralph Stanley and Eddie Dean (Gotham) |
The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Legacy in Country Music by Jocelyn R. Neal (Indiana University Press) |
[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Folk, Ethnic, or World Music ]
| Best Discography | Best History | Certificate of Merit |
|
La Musique antillaise en France discographie 1929-1959 / French-Caribbean Music in France a Discography 1929-1959 by Alain Boulanger, John Cowley and Marc Monneraye (AFAS) |
[ Best Historical Research in General History of Recorded Sound ]
| Best History | Best Discography | |
|
by Gary Gottlieb (Course Technology PTR) |
Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music by David Suisman (Harvard University Press) |
[ Best Historical Research in Record Labels ]
| Best Work | Certificate of Merit | |
|
Three Score & Ten: Topic Records at 70
by David Suff (Topic Records) |
 by John Hartley Fox
(University of Illinois Press) |
[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz ]
| Best History | Best History | Certificate of Merit |
|
by Helene LaFaro-Fernández (University of North Texas Press) |
by Hank O’Neal (Vanderbilt University Press) |
From Harlem to Hollywood: My Life in Music by Van Alexander and Stephen Fratallone (Bear Manor) |
[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Rock or Popular Music ]
| Best Work | Best History | Certificate of Merit |
American Dance Bands on Record and Film, 1915-1942 by Richard J. Johnson and Bernhard H. Shirley (Rustbooks) |
Perry Como: A Biography and Complete Career Record by Malcolm Macfarlane and Ken Crossland (McFarland) |
Sonic Boom! The History of Northwest Rock: From Louie Louie to Smells Like Teen Spirit by Peter Blecha (Backbeat) |
| Certificate of Merit | ||
by John Broven (University of Illinois 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: Dennis Rooney (Classical Music Judge) Cary Ginell (Judge-At-Large) Dan Morgenstern (Jazz Music Judge) William L. Schurk (Popular Music Judge) Dick Spottswood (Judge-at-Large) Jim Farrington (Book Review Editor, ARSC Journal) Brenda Nelson-Strauss (ex-oficio) Vincent Pelote (ARSC President) Roberta Freund Schwartz (Awards Committee Co-Chair), David Lewis (Awards Committee Co-Chair)