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2016 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. The awards will be presented at a ceremony at ARSC's 2017 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 2016 Awards for Excellence honor works published in 2015.
[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Rock Music ]
| Best History | Certificate of Merit |
Certificate of Merit |
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Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll |
Beatles Gear |
Everybody's Heard about the Bird: The True Story of 1960s Rock 'n' Roll in Minnesota by Rick Shefchik (University of Minnesota Press)
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[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Popular Music ]
| Best History | Best Discography | |
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by Richard Martin (Archeophone)
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by Daniel Lesueur (InfoDisc)
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| Certificate of Merit | ||
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by Michaelangelo Matos (Dey Street Books)
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[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz Music ]
| Best History | Best Discography | |
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Swingin' on Central Avenue: African-American Jazz in Los Angeles |
by George Hulme and Bert Whyatt
(Hardinge Simpole)
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| Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit | |
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by Monk Rowe, with Romy Britell (Richard W. Couper Press)
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by Simon Spilett (Equinox Press)
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[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Country Music ]
| Best History | Best Discography | |
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by Walt Trott
(Nova Books)
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The Music of the Stanley Brothers |
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| Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit |
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by Tim Newby
(McFarland Press)
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West Virginia's Traditional Country Music |
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[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Folk, or World Music ]
| Best History | Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit |
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by James P. Leary
(University of Wisconsin Press and Dust to Digital, in collaboration with the
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and the Association for Cultural Equity/Alan Lomax Archive)
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Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line |
by Richard Polenberg (Cornell University Press)
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[ Best Historical Research in Blues, Gospel, Soul, or R&B Music ]
| Best History | ||
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by Ian Zack
(University of Chicago Press)
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| Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit |
Certificate of Merit |
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by Charles L. Hughes (University of North Carolina Press)
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A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music |
Early Blues: The First Stars of the Blues Guitar |
[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Classical Music ]
| Best History | Best Discography |
Certificate of Merit |
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(Boydell and Brewer)
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The Philadelphia Orchestra: An Annotated Discography |
by Paul Watt and Anne-Marie Forbes (Rowman & Littlefield)
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[ Best Historical Research on General Recording Topics ]
| Best History | ||
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(Viking/Penguin)
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| Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit |
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by Michael Denning (Verso)
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by Howard Massey
(Hal Leonard)
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by Erich Nunn (University of Georgia Press)
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[ Best Historical Research on Record Labels ]
| Best History | ||
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by Michael White (Bloomsbury Academic)
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