arsclist Nominations for 2003 ARSC Awards for Excellence

[David Seubert <seubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nominations for 2003 ARSC Awards for Excellence

You are invited to propose candidates for the 2003 Association for Recorded 
Sound Collections (ARSC) Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound 
Research.  Nominations may be made by anyone, whether or not a member of 
ARSC.  Eligible publications include any printed workbook, monograph, 
article, liner notesfirst published during 2002.  The work may be on any 
subject related to recorded sound.  This includes histories, discographies, 
and recording artist biographies in any field of music, speech or 
technology, genre (classical, popular, rock, jazz, country, folk, spoken 
word, labels, phonographs, etc.), as well as modern techniques for the 
preservation or reproduction of older recordings.  The work should deal 
primarily with historical periods, defined as at least ten years prior to 
publication (e.g., pre-1992), with the exception of works related to 
preservation and technology.  In addition, a Lifetime Achievement Award 
will be presented to an individual in recognition of his or her life's work 
in published recorded sound research.

Nominations for ARSC Award for Distinguished Service to Historic Recordings

The committee also welcomes nominations for the ARSC Award for 
Distinguished Service to Historic Recordings. This is a new award to be 
presented annually to an individual who has made contributions of 
outstanding significance to the field of historic recordings in forms other 
than published works or discographic research.

The deadline for nominations is January 31, 2003.   The Awards Committee 
especially welcomes information concerning eligible journal articles as 
well as foreign and small press publications that might otherwise be 
overlooked.  Additional information about ARSC, including a list of past 
ARSC Award winners, may be found at www.arsc-audio.org. Please forward the 
author, title, publisher, and publisher's address for each nominee to 
either of the ARSC Awards Co-Chairs:

Brenda Nelson-Strauss
Indiana University
Archives of African American Music & Culture
Smith Research Center, Suite 180-181
2805 E. 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47408
bnelsons@xxxxxxxxxxx

Vincent Pelote
Institute of Jazz Studies
Rutgers State University of NJ
Newark, NJ  07102
pelote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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