ARSC News

ARSC is pleased to announce the publication of ARSC Journal Vol. 55 No. 2 (Fall 2024).

https://arsc-audio.org/journal

ORIGINAL ARTICLES (AMP! login required)

Preserving Montreux Jazz Festival Recordings: A New Approach for Restoring Pyral CJ87 Master Tapes, by David Hadzis

Making Molten Metal into Liquid Sound: A Discography of Church Bells, Clock Tower Bells, Carillons and Handbells on Privately Produced British 78 rpm Records, by Mark Clinton Jones

Transferring PCM-F1 Digital Tapes to Current Digital Standards, by Gary A. Galo

The Victor Talking Machine Company Broadcasts of 1925: The Original Radio Scripts, by Ryan Barna

Early Radio in Color! (More or Less), by Matthew Barton

Plus Book Reviews, Sound Recording Reviews, and Current Bibliography!

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is pleased to announce the publication of ARSC Newsletter 166 (Fall 2024):
 
https://arsc-audio.org/newsletter
 
For members with print subscriptions, copies will arrive in mailboxes soon.
For members with digital subscriptions, find the newsletter at the link above.
 
ARSC Newsletter 166 (Fall 2024) Contents

• President's Report, by Yuri Shimoda
• Researching British Bell Records, an ARSC Research Grant Report by Mark Jones
• Unheard Melodies: Entangled Pasts of a Studio-Born Radio Opera, an ARSC Research Grant Report by Ronit Ghosh
• Correcting the Record on Lead Belly’s Party Tape, by Geoff Harrison
• Reflections on Researching The Voice of Zion, an ARSC Research Grant Report by Christopher Silver
• City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society Richard Taylor Bursary, 2025 Call for Applications
• ARSC 2024 Conference Recordings Announcement
• ARSC Resource Showcase: ARSC's New Website
• ARSC Grants Webinar Video Announcement
• And more....!

To contribute to the ARSC Newsletter, contact:

ARSC Newsletter Editor Tim Brooks at tim@timbrooks.net

To advertise in the ARSC Newsletter, contact:

ARSC Executive Director Nathan Georgitis at execdir@arsc-audio.org

ARSC is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.
 
https://arsc-audio.org/2024-excellence-awards-winners

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 in recorded sound research. Please consider supporting our winners by purchasing copies of their works.

The 2024 Awards for Excellence honor works published in 2023. The awards will be presented during ARSC's 59th Annual Conference, to be held May 14-17, 2024 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Additional information about the ARSC Conference and the ARSC Awards for Excellence may be found on ARSC's website.

Congratulations to all winners! And thank you to the ARSC Awards Committee Chair and Judges for their efforts to review and recognize the best work in recorded sound research.

Recordings of presentations at ARSC’s 58th Annual Conference and Workshop in St. Paul, Minnesota are now available online to ARSC members, with selected recordings also available to the public.
 
https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2875

Slides for most presentations are available in the Supplemental Files tab for each resource in Aviary. If you require Aviary login credentials, select Login and then Forgot Password to receive an email with instructions.

To search AMP! for ARSC conference sound recordings:
https://www.arsc-audio.org/journal-index/home.php
 
If you presented and would like to make your slides available please contact Nathan Georgitis (execdir@arsc-audio.org).
 
Please note that ARSC recordings are protected by copyright. Copies are made available here with the presenters' permission solely for personal and educational non-profit, non-commercial use. No part may be sold, loaned, distributed, broadcast, or published without the written permission of the presenter.
 
Thank you to all who presented at the conference!

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is pleased to announce the publication of ARSC Journal 55.1 (Spring 2024).

Browse the ARSC Journal online at:

https://www.arsc-audio.org/journal.html

Members with print subscriptions will receive print copies soon.

Members with digital subscriptions may access contents at the link above.

International members with digital subscriptions will receive digital copies soon.

ARSC Journal 55.1 Contents
by Kip Lornell
Let's Go! (And Keep Going!): Pipeline Instrumental Review Turns Thirty-Five
by Matthew Barton
The Universe of Twang in Living Color!
by Matthew Barton
The Bettini Cylinders of Palatine Bridge
by Robert Feinstein
Woody ben Khayyám: The Rubáyát of Woody Guthrie
by John M. Radosta
Orlando Riverius Marsh

ORIGINAL ARTICLES (ARSC website login required)

Record Piracy: The Attempts of the Sound Recording Industry to Protect Itself against Unauthorized Copying, 1890–1978

by Raymond R. Wile

The Career and Writings of Charles K. Wolfe: Thirty-Five Years Exploring Blues, Bluegrass, Country, Folk, and Popular Music

by Ron Geesin

Plus Book Reviews, Sound Recording Reviews, and Current Bibliography

Contribute to the ARSC Journal: 

https://www.arsc-audio.org/journalsubmissions.html

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https://www.arsc-audio.org/advertising.html

The ARSC Journal is looking for its next Book Reviews Editor!

Interested? Contact Matt Barton, ARSC Publications Committee Chair.

ARSC announces finalists for ARSC Awards for Excellence for 2024!

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ARSC inaugurates ARSC Journal Best Article and Best Review of the Year Awards Program by recognizing Lawrence Schulman and Richard Masters for their contributions to the ARSC Journal.

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