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2022 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. The awards will be presented at a ceremony at ARSC's 2023 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 2022 Awards for Excellence honor works published in 2021.
[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Rock or Popular Music ]
| Best History | Best Discography | |
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Prince and the Parade and Sign O' The Times Era Studio Sessions: 1985 and 1986 |
My Melancholy Baby: The First Ballads of the Great American Songbook, 1902-1913 |
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Certificate of Merit |
Certificate of Merit |
Certificate of Merit |
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Dead Man's Curve: The Rock 'n' Roll Life of Jan Berry |
Atomic Tunes: The Cold War in American and British Popular Music |
by Richard Houghton (Spenwood Books) |
[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz ]
| Best History | ||
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Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France by Celeste Day Moore (Duke University Press) |
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| Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit |
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by Dottie Dodgion and Wayne Enstice (University of Illinois Press)
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by Kevin Mooney (Texas A&M Press)
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Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism by Richard Brent Turner (NYU Press) |
[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Country, Folk, Roots, and World Music ]
| Best History | ||
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An American Singing Heritage: Songs from the British-Irish-American Oral Tradition as Recorded in the Early Twentieth Century
by Norm Cohen, Carson Cohen and Anne Dhu McLucas, eds. (A-R Editions)
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| Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit | |
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by Frances Barton and John K. Novak; James P. Leary (forward) (University of Oklahoma Press) |
by Ríonach uí Ógáin (Cork University Press) |
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[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Gospel, Hip Hop, Soul, or R&B ]
| Best History | Best Discography | |
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by Kevin Mungons and Douglas Yeo (University of Illinois Press)
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by Cey Adams, editor (Smithsonian Folkways)
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| Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit |
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by Jay Bruder (Bear Family Records)
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by Robert M. Marovich (University of Illinois Press) |
by Howard Priestley (New Haven Publishing) |
[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Classical Music ]
| Best History | Best Discography | |
by Mark Marrington (Routledge)
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by Colin Bain (Barry Ashpole)
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| Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit | |
by Michael Faure (Amadeus Press)
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by Daniel M. Grimley (Reaktion Books)
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[ Best Historical Research on General Recording Topics ]
| Best History | Best Discography | |
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by Richard Raichelson (Arcadia Records)
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by Ferenc János Szabó and Marietta B. Kaskötő, trans. Zsófia Hutai (National Széchényi Library, Budapest)
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| Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit | Certificate of Merit |
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by Daphne A. Brooks (Belknap Press)
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by Jehnie I. Burns (Lexington Books)
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Contributions to the History of the Record Industry Vol. 11; Papers from the Shanghai Conference 28-29, 2019 by Du Jun Min and Pekka Gronow (Gesellschaft für Historische Tonträger)
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| Certificate of Merit | ||
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by Eva Morena Rodríguez (Oxford University Press)
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