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[ARSCLIST] ARSC Awards: 2007 Winners
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---2007 ARSC AWARDS---
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is pleased to announce the
winners of the 2007 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound
Research. Begun in 1991, the awards are presented to authors and publishers
of books, articles, liner notes, and monographs, to recognize outstanding
published research in the field of recorded sound.
In giving these awards, ARSC recognizes outstanding contributions,
encourages high standards, and promotes awareness of superior works. 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. The 2007 Awards for Excellence
honor works published in 2006. Additionally, a Lifetime Achievement Award
and an Award for Distinguished Service to Historical Recordings are
presented annually.
BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED BLUES, RHYTHM & BLUES, or SOUL MUSIC
Best Discography:
Blues Discography, 1943-1970, compiled by Les Fancourt; produced by Bob
McGrath (Eyeball Productions).
Best History:
Encyclopedia of the Blues, edited by Edward Komara (Routledge).
Certificate of Merit:
Presence and Pleasure: The Funk Grooves of James Brown and Parliament, by
Anne Danielsen (Wesleyan University Press).
BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED CLASSICAL MUSIC
Best Discography:
New York Philharmonic: The Authorized Recordings, 1917–2005, A Discography,
by James H. North (Scarecrow Press).
Best History:
Lionel Tertis: The First Great Virtuoso of the Viola, by John White (Boydell
Press).
Certificate of Merit:
Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States: Crossing the
Line, by Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner (Ashgate).
BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED COUNTRY MUSIC
Best Discography:
Old Shep: The Red Foley Recordings, 1933–1950, liner notes by Cary Ginell
(Bear Family).
Best History:
How Nashville Became Music City USA: 50 Years of Music Row, by Michael
Kosser (Hal Leonard).
Certificate of Merit:
No One to Cry To: A Long, Hard Ride into the Sunset with Foy Willing of the
Riders of the Purple Sage, by Sharon Lee Willing (Wheatmark).
BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED FOLK, ETHNIC, or WORLD MUSIC
Best Discography:
West Indian Rhythm, discography by John Cowley, Donald R. Hill, and Dick
Spottswood (Bear Family).
Best History:
The Dawn of Indian Music in the West, by Peter Lavezzoli (Continuum).
Certificates of Merit:
Arsenio Rodriguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music, by
David F. Garcia (Temple University Press).
Texas Zydeco, by Roger Wood; photography by James Fraher (University of
Texas Press).
America's Polka King: The Real Story of Frankie Yankovic and His Music, by
Bob Dolgan (Gray & Co.).
BEST RESEARCH in GENERAL HISTORY of RECORDED SOUND
A Shot in the Dark: Making Records in Nashville, 1945-1955, by Martin
Hawkins (Vanderbilt University Press/Country Music Foundation).
Certificate of Merit:
Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Post-War American Recording, by
Tim J. Anderson (University of Minnesota Press).
BEST RESEARCH in RECORD LABELS
Best Discography:
The Plaza-ARC Discography, Volume 1 (1922-1931), by Billie W. Thomas and
Allan Sutton (Mainspring Press).
Best History:
The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records, by Ashley Kahn
(W.W. Norton).
Certificate of Merit:
Rough Trade, by Rob Young (Black Dog).
BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED JAZZ MUSIC
Best Discography:
Bags' Grooves: A Discography of Milt Jackson, by Chris Sheridan (Names &
Numbers).
Best History:
Rhythm Is Our Business: Jimmie Lunceford and the Harlem Express, by Eddy
Determeyer (University of Michigan Press).
Certificates of Merit:
Fats Waller on the Air: The Radio Broadcasts and Discography, by Stephen
Taylor (Scarecrow Press).
All of Me: The Complete Discography of Louis Armstrong, by Jos Willems
(Scarecrow Press).
Someone to Watch Over Me: The Life and Music of Ben Webster, by Frank
Buchmann-Moller (University of Michigan Press).
City of Gabriels: The History of Jazz in St. Louis, 1895–1973, by Dennis
Owsley (Reedy Press).
The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles, by Steven Louis
Isoardi (University of California Press).
BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED POPULAR MUSIC
Best Discography:
The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa, by Paul Bierley (University of
Illinois Press).
Best History:
George Gershwin: His Life and Work, by Howard Pollack (University of
California Press).
Certificates of Merit:
Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter and Musical Design in Electronic Dance
Music, by Mark J. Butler (Indiana University Press).
Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air: Legends of West Texas Music, by
Christopher J. Oglesby (University of Texas Press).
BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED ROCK MUSIC
Best Discography:
The Unreleased Beatles: Music & Film, by Richie Unterberger (Backbeat
Books).
Best History:
Endless Enigma: A Musical Biography of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, by Edward
Macan (Open Court).
Certificates of Merit:
The Words and Music of Frank Zappa, by Kelly Fisher Lowe (Praeger).
Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll, by Rick Coleman
(Da Capo Press)
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
ARSC annually presents a Lifetime Achievement Award to an individual, in
recognition of a life's work in recorded sound research and publication. The
2007 award was presented to Alan Kelly, one of the world's foremost
discographers.
Kelly has dedicated 50 years to creating detailed discographies of
recordings by The Gramophone Company (whose main labels were His Master's
Voice and Zonophone), from its 1898 foundation in the United Kingdom to its
1931 merger with the Columbia Graphophone Company to form Electric and
Musical Industries (EMI). For many years, Kelly worked in the EMI Archives,
copying and arranging material from company ledgers, to compile
discographies based on a language or geographical area, and on the technical
origin of each record. To date, he has completed the Russian, French,
Italian, and Dutch catalogues of The Gramophone Company, and ten volumes of
the HMV Matrix series. The massive scale of the company's activities -- and,
hence, of Kelly's task -- becomes evident when one examines the vast amount
of information in the discographies, disseminated by him on CD-ROM.
AWARD for DISTINGUISHED SERVICE to HISTORICAL RECORDINGS
ARSC's Award for Distinguished Service to Historical Recordings honors a
person who has made outstanding contributions to the field, outside of
published works or discographic research. This year's award was presented to
Gerald D. Gibson for his many contributions to recorded sound in the areas
of curatorship, preservation, and research.
Gibson held many positions at the Library of Congress: Sound Recording
Cataloger; Assistant Head of the Music Division Recorded Sound Section; Head
of the Curatorial Section of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded
Sound Division; and Preservation Specialist.
Gibson's lasting contributions to recorded sound scholarship and
preservation are numerous. Among them, he compiled bibliographies that today
remain essential reference works. His designs for housing and shelving sound
recordings continue to serve as models in the field. Gibson developed the
sound recording and moving image collections of the Library of Congress to a
quality appropriate for a national library. He also laid the foundations for
digital preservation of sound recordings. The curatorial practices
introduced under his tenures have become recognized as best practices in
recorded sound conservation.
Gibson served as Editor of the ARSC Journal, President of ARSC, and
President of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
(IASA). He was a founding member of the ARSC Associated Audio Archives
Committee, which created the "Rigler and Deutsch Record Index," "Rules for
Cataloging of Sound Recordings," and "Audio Preservation: A Planning Study."
2007 AWARDS COMMITTEE
Winners are chosen by the ARSC Awards Committee: five elected judges
representing specific fields of study, plus the ARSC President and the Book
Review Editor of the ARSC Journal. The members of the 2007 ARSC Awards
Committee are:
Robert Iannapollo (Awards Committee Co-Chair)
Roberta Freund-Schwartz (Awards Committee Co-Chair)
Sam Brylawski (ARSC President)
Brenda Nelson-Strauss (ARSC Past-President)
Jim Farrington (Book Review Editor, ARSC Journal)
David Hamilton (Classical Music Judge)
Kip Lornell (Judge-At-Large)
Dan Morgenstern (Jazz Music Judge)
William L. Schurk (Popular Music Judge)
Dick Spottswood (Judge-at-Large)
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings—in all genres of
music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. Additional
information about ARSC, including lists of past ARSC Award Winners and
Finalists, may be found at www.arsc-audio.org