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2021 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. The awards will be presented at a ceremony at ARSC's 2022 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 2021 Awards for Excellence honor works published in 2020.
[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Rock or Soul Music ]
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A New Day Yesterday: UK Progressive Rock & The 1970s |
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Certificate of Merit |
Certificate of Merit |
Certificate of Merit |
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Knock! Knock! Knock! On Wood: My Life in Soul |
Heart Full of Soul: Keith Relf of the Yardbirds |
by Steve Howe (Omnibus Press)
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| Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit |
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by Maureen Mahon (Duke University Press) |
by David Roberts (This Day In Music Books) |
by Ted Templeman, as told to Greg Renoff (ECW Press) |
[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Popular Music ]
| Best History | Best Discography | |
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by Richard Carlin and Ken Bloom
(Routledge)
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by Ted Montgomery (McFarland)
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| Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit |
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by Andrew Mall (University of California Press)
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Cornstars: Rube Music in Swing Time: The Rise and Fall of Freddie Fisher and his Schnickelfritz Band, Stan Fritts and his Korn Kobblers and the Hillbilly, Cornball, Novelty Jazz of the 1930s, 40s, 50s
by Jack Norton (self published)
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by David Sager (Rivermont Records)
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[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz Music ]
| Best History | ||
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Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong |
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| Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit |
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Better Days Will Come Again: The Life of Arthur Briggs, Jazz Genius of Harlem, Paris, and a Nazi Prison Camp
by Travis Atria (Chicago Review Press)
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by Will Friedwald (Oxford University Press) |
by Peter Jones (Equinox Publishing Ltd.) |
Certificate of Merit |
Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit |
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"Playing for the King: Ziggy Elman, Benny Goodman, and 1930s Klezmer Swing,” Jazz and Culture 3/1 (2020): 22-44 by Sarah Caissie Provost |
by Wolfgang Sandner, trans. Chris Jarrett (Equinox Publishing Ltd.) |
by William Sites (University of Chcago Press) |
[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Country or Roots Music ]
| Best History | ||
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by Don Reid (Mercer University Press)
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| Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit | |
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by Kip Lornell (Oxford University Press)
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by Travis D. Stimeling (Oxford University Press) |
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[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Folk, or World Music ]
| Best History | Best Discography | |
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by Rivka Havassy and Edwin Seroussi (Jewish Music Research Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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by Guido van Rijn (Agram Books)
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| Certificate of Merit | ||
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by Elizabeth Thomson and Arthur Levy (Palazzo Editions)
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[ Best Historical Research on Record Classical Music ]
| Best History | ||
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by J. Peter Burkholder (Amadeus Press)
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| Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit |
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The Changing Aesthetics of Vocal Registration in the Age Of ‘Verismo,’” Music & Letters, vol. 102, no. 1, pp. 54-79
by Barbara Gentili
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by Jean-Michel Molkhou (Buchet Chastel) |
by Steven C. Smith (Oxford University Press) |
[ Best Historical Research on Record Labels or General Recording Topics ]
| Best History | Best Discography | |
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by Kyle Barnett (University of Michigan Press)
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by Bill Dean-Myatt and Mike Langridge (City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society)
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| Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit |
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by Matt Brennan (Oxford University Press)
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by Billy Miller and Michael Hurtt (Kicks Books)
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by Mads Walther-Hansen (Oxford University Press)
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| Certificate of Merit | ||
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by Jonathan Ward (Dust to Digital)
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