2006 Finalists: ARSC
Awards for Excellence
View winners: 2007
| 2006 | 2005
| 2004 | 2003
| 2002 | 2001
| 2000 | 1991-1999
View finalists: 2007
| 2006 | 2005
| 2004 | 2003 |
2002 | 2001 | 2000
| 1991-1999
ARSC is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2006 ARSC Awards
for excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Winners will be
announced in October. Awards will be presented at a ceremony in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin on May 5, 2007, during ARSC's annual conference.
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, for best history [H] and best discography
[D].
Winners are chosen by the ARSC Awards Committee: five elected judges
representing specific fields of study, the ARSC President, and the Book
Review Editor of the ARSC Journal. The members of the 2006 ARSC Awards
Committee are: Roberta Freund-Schwartz (Awards Committee Co-Chair);
Robert Iannapollo (Awards Committee Co-Chair); Brenda Nelson-Strauss
(now ARSC Past-President); James 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); Richard Spottswood (Judge-at-Large)
The following works, published in 2005, have been nominated:
Blues / Rhythm & Blues / Soul
- Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay
by Louis Cantor (University of Illinois)
- Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke by Peter
Guralnick (Little Brown)
- A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sing Them
by Buzzy Jackson (W. W. Norton)
- Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library
of Congress Coahoma County Folklore Study by John W. Work,
Lewis Wade Jones, Samuel Adams; Robert Gordon and Bruce Nemerov, editors
(Vanderbilt)
Classical
- Michael Rabin: America's Virtuoso Violinist by
Anthony Feinstein (Amadeus)
- Rachmaninoff: Life, Works, Recordings by Max Harrison
(Continuum)
- While Spring and Summer Sang: Thomas Beecham and the Music
of Frederick Delius by Lyndon Jenkins (Ashgate)
- Yevgeny Mravinsky: The Noble Conductor by Gregor
Tassie (Scarecrow Press)
- Prince of Virtuosos: A Life of Walter Rummel, American Pianist
by Charles Timbrell (Scarecrow Press)
Country
- Bob Wills: Faded Love, 1947-1973 by Rich Kienzle
(Bear Family)
- The Rose and the Briar: Death, Love, and Liberty in the
American Ballad by Sean Wilentz and Greil Marcus, editors
(W. W. Norton)
- King of the Cowboys, Queen of the West: Roy Rogers and Dale
Evans by Ray White (University of Wisconsin)
- Country Music Goes to War by Charles K. Wolfe (University
of Kentucky)
Folk / Ethnic / World
- America Over the Water by Shirley Collins (SAF)
- Bob Marley and the Wailers: The Definitive Discography by
Roger Steffens and Leroy Jodie Pierson (Rounder)
- Electric Folk: The Changing Face of English Traditional
Music by Britta Sweers (Oxford)
- The Mayor of Macdougal Street: A Memoir by Dave
Van Ronk and Elijah Wald; forward by Lawrence Bloch (Da Capo)
- The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century of
Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet by Brian Wright-McLeod
(University of Arizona)
Rap / Hip-Hop
- Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
by Jeff Chang (St. Martins)
- Country Fried Soul: Adventures in Dirty South Hip-Hop
by Tamara Palmer (Backbeat)
Rock
- Soft Machine: Out-bloody-rageous by Graham Bennett
(SAF)
- Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n'
Roll by David Carson (University of Michigan)
- Mr. Tambourine Man: The Life and Legacy of the Byrds's
Gene Clark by John Einarson (Backbeat)
- Dream a Little Dream of Me: The Life of "Mama"
Cass Elliot by Eddi Fiegel (Sidgwick & Jackson)
- Speak to Me: The Legacy of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the
Moon by Russell Reising, editor (Ashgate)
- Van Morrison: No Surrender by Johnny Rogan (Secker
& Warburg)
- Conversations with Tom Petty by Paul Zollo and
Tom Petty (Omnibus)
Jazz
- Stan Getz: An Annotated Bibliography and Filmography with
Song and Session Information for Albums by Nicholas Churchill (McFarland)
- The Last Miles: The Music of Miles Davis 1980-1991
by George Cole
(University of Michigan)
- Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band
by Lawrence Gushee (Oxford)
- Bix: The Definitive Biography of a Jazz Legend: Leon "Bix"
Beiderbecke (1903-1931) by Jean Pierre Lion (Continuum)
- The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big
Band Jazz by Jeffrey Magee (Oxford)
- Head Hunters: The Making of Jazz's First Platinum Album
by Steven F. Pond (University of Michigan)
- Chasin' the Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker
by Brian Priestley (Oxford)
- Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond
by Doug Ramsey and Paul Caulfield (discography) (Parkside Publications,
Seattle)
Labels / General History
- Echo and Reverb: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording,
1900-1960 by Peter Doyle (Wesleyan University Press)
- Sixty Years in the Music Business, by Nathaniel
Shilkret with Niel Shell and Barbara Shilkret, editors (Scarecrow
Press)
- Edison Blue Amberol Cylinders by Allan Sutton
(Mainspring Press)
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