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Following are the finalists for the 2004 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, selected by the Awards Committee from books, articles, and liner notes published in 2003. ARSC is pleased to recognize the outstanding research and discographic work done by the nominees.
The following works, published in 2003, have been nominated:
Best Research in Recorded Popular Music
- Cakewalks, Rags and Novelties: The International Ragtime Discography 1894-1930 by Allan Sutton (Mainspring Press)
- Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song by David A. Jasen (Routledge)
- Paul Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music, 1890-1930 by Don Rayno (Scarecrow Press)
- Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions by Mark Eden Horowitz and Stephen Sondheim (Scarecrow Press)
- Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer by Philip Furia (St. Martin’s Press)
- God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War by Kathleen E. R. Smith (University Press of Kentucky)
- Sound of Africa: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio by Louise Meintjes (Duke University Press)
- Wizard of Oz [CD liner notes] by David Maxine
Best Research in Recorded Country Music
- Southwest Shuffle: Pioneers of Honkey Tonk, Western Swing and Country Jazz by Richard Kienzle (Routledge)
- Women of Country Music: A Reader by Charles K. Wolfe (ed.) and James E. Akenson (University Press of Kentucky)
Best Research in Recorded Classical Music
- Bach Performance Practice, 1945-1975: A Comprehensive Review of Sound Recordings and Literature by Dorottya Fabian (Ashgate)
- Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performance Style by Michael Musgrave (ed.) and Bernard D. Sherman (ed.) (Cambridge University Press)
- Theory and Practice in Late Nineteenth Century Violin Performance: An Examination of Style in Performance, 1850-1900 by David Milsom (Ashgate)
- Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky by Jonathan Cross (Cambridge University Press)
- Pierre Monteux, Maitre by John Canarina (Amadeus Press)
- Rudolf Serkin: A Life by Stephen Lehmann (Oxford University Press)
Best Research in Recorded Rock, Rhythm & Blues, or Soul
- At the Apple's Core: The Beatles from the Inside by Denis O'Dell and Bob Neaverson (Peter Owen, Ltd.)
- The Bootleg Guide: Classic Bootlegs of the 1960s and 1970s, an Annotated Discography by Garry Freeman (Scarecrow Press)
- Holy Profane: Religion in Black Popular Music by Teresa L. Reed (University Press of Kentucky)
- Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology and African-American Culture Between the World Wars by Joel Dinerstein (University of Massachusetts Press)
- Bad Boy of Gospel Music: The Calvin Newton Story by Russ Cheatham (University Press of Mississippi)
- Music and Technoculture by Rene T. A. Lysloff (ed.) and Lesley C. Gay, Jr. (ed.) (Wesleyan University Press)
Best Research in Recorded Jazz
- Jazz on Record: The First Sixty Years by Scott Yanow (Backbeat Books)
- Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris by Jeffrey H. Jackson (Duke University Press)
- Good Vibes: A Life in Jazz by Terry Gibbs with Cary Ginell (Scarecrow Press)
- Jean “Django” Reinhardt: A Contextual Bio-Discography, 1910-1953 by Paul Vernon (Ashgate)
- Charlie Christian: Solo Flight: The Story of the Seminal Electric Guitarist by Peter Broadbent (Ashley Mark) (2nd edition)
- Jelly’s Blues: The Life, Music and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton by Howard Reich and William Gaines (DaCapo Press)
- African-American Jazz Musicians in the Diaspora by Larry Ross (Edwin Mellen Press)
- The Cat on a Hot Thin Groove by Gene Deitch (Fantagraphics Books)
- Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties
by Scott Saul (Harvard University Press)
Best Research Recorded Blues and Gospel Music
- Stagolee Shot Billy by Cecil Brown (Harvard University Press)
- Great God a’Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music by J. Jerome Zolten (Oxford University Press)
- Robert Johnson: Lost and Found by Barry Lee Pearson and Bill McCulloch (University of Illinois Press)
- Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895 by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff (University Press of Mississippi)
Best Research in Record Labels or Manufacturers
- Paramount’s Rise and Fall: A History of the Wisconsin Chair Company and its Recording Activities by Alex van der Tuuk (Mainspring Press)
- Folkways Records: Moses Asch and his Encyclopedia of Sound by Anthony Olmstead (Routledge)
- His Master’s Voice: The Perfect Portable Gramophone by Dave Cooper (New Cavendish Books)
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