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Awards Committee
The ARSC Awards Committee administers the ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research and awards two lifetime achievement awards, the ARSC Lifetime Achievement Award and the ARSC Distinguished Service to Historical Sound Recordings Award.
The committee presents Awards for Excellence to authors and publishers of books, articles, or recording liner notes, to recognize outstanding published research in the field of recorded sound. A maximum of two awards is presented annually in each category—one for best history and one for best discography. Certificates of Merit are presented to runners-up of exceptionally high quality.
ARSC Awards Judges are elected by membership and serve two year terms on the ARSC Blue Ribbon Awards Panel.
To read more about this committee, please see the committee charter or description in the ARSC Operations Manual (members only).
To read reports of this committee to the ARSC Board, please see the ARSC Bulletins (members only).
ARSC Blue Ribbon Awards Panel
Roberta Freund Schwartz (Archive of Recorded Sound, University of Kansas), Chair
Kyle Barnett, Popular Music Judge
Diane Napert, Classical Music Judge
Michael Fitzgerald, Jazz Music Judge
Richard Spottswood, At-Large Judge
Melissa Weber, At-Large Judge
Cece Otto, ARSC President's Designee/Ex Officio
James Farrington, Book Review Editor, ARSC Journal/Ex Officio