ARSC Journal 55:2 (Fall 2024)

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Original Articles

• Cover, Title Page, Table of Contents, Front Matter, Back Cover
• Preserving Montreux Jazz Festival Recordings: A New Approach for Restoring Pyral CJ87 Master Tapes
        by David Hadzis
• Making Molten Metal into Liquid Sound
        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

Book Reviews

• Bone Music, by Stephen Coates, with photographs by Paul Hartfield and a foreword by Artemyi Troitsky
       by Ryan Gourley
• Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915-1918), by Anette Hoffmann
       by Ed Komara
• The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets, by Alyn Shipton
       by Steven A. Cerra
• Pepper Adams Saxophone Trailblazer, by Gary Carner
       by Monk Rowe
• Monk’s Music: An Illustrative Discography, by Dub Tay (Genius Music Books)
       by Robert Iannapollo
• Chasing the Masters: First Takes of a Modern Drumming Artist, by Phil Haynes (Corner Store Jazz)
       by Robert Iannapollo
• The Jazz Men: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America, by Larry Tye (Mariner Books)
       by Robert M. Marovich
• Spirit of the Century: Our Own Story, by The Blind Boys of Alabama with Preston Lauterbach (Hachette Books)
       by Robert M. Marovich
• Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals, by Christopher M. Reali (University of Illinois Press)
       by Ed Komara
• The Authorized P-Funk Song Reference: Official Canon of Parliament-Funkadelic, 1956–2023, by Daniel Bedrosian (Rowman and Littlefield)
       by Ed Komara
• The Who and Quadrophenia, by Martin Popoff (Motobooks/Quarto)
       by Ed Komara
• Lunacy: The Curious Phenomenon of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, 50 Years On, by John Kruth with foreword by Steve Wynn (Backbeat Books); Yes: The Tormato Story, by Kevin Mulryne with foreword by Oliver Wakeman (Five Per Cent for Something Publishing)
       by Holm-Hudson, Kevin
• Roots Punk: A Visual and Oral History, by David A. Ensminger (University Press of Mississippi)
       by Matt Chiu
• Nefarious Artists: The Evolution and Art of the Punk Rock Post-Punk and New Wave Hardcore Punk and Alternative Rock Compilation Record 1976–1989, by Welly Artcore (Earth Island Books)
       by Dan Lopata
• DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution, by Lance Scott Walker (University of Texas Press)
       by Leonard Martin
• The Coen Brothers and American Roots Music, by Jesse Gerlach Ulmer (McFarland)
       by David Tenenholtz
• Tomorrow Brings Memories Detroit’s First Underground Record Company, by Craig Maki (Wax Hound Press)
       by Edard Komara
• But Will You Love Me Tomorrow: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups, by Laura Flam and Emily Sieu (Hachette Books)
       by Blaine Brubaker
• Book Reviewers
• Books Received for Review

Sound Recording Reviews

• Jacques Tati Swing! Born Bad Records (BB167CD); Jacques Tati Swing! Born Bad Records (BB167)
       by Lawrence Schulman
• Judy Garland: Meet Me in St. Louis/ The Harvey Girls – Plus 17 More 1930s & 1940s Classics in True Stereo! Classics (JCLA #380); Judy Garland: The LP Collection and More, First Time in Stereo. Classics (JG #676734)
       by Lawrence Schulman
• Bobby Darin: E.P. Songs. Uni-LPRecords; Bobby Darin Sings The Shadow Of Your Smile. Atlantic/Direction Records; Bobby Darin: In A Broadway Bag. Atlantic/Direction Records; Bobby Darin: If I Were A Carpenter. Atlantic/Direction Records; Bobby Darin: Inside Out. Atlantic/Direction Records; Bobby Darin: Bobby Darin Sings Dr. Dolittle. Atlantic/Direction Records; Bobby Darin: Born Walden Robert Cassotto. Direction Records; Bobby Darin: Commitment. Direction Records
       by Lawrence Schulman
• Curtain Calls of Yesteryear. Audio Fidelity
       by Lawrence Schulman
• New Hillbilly Music: On The Honky Tonk Highway With The Brother Boys. By The Brother Boys (Ed Snodderly and Eugene Wolf). Bear Family (BCD17685)
•      by Ed Komara
  
• Sound Recording Reviewers

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