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The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2012 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Winners will be announced in September 2012, and the awards will be presented at a ceremony in May 2013, during ARSC's annual conference. Additional information about the conference and the ARSC Awards for Excellence can be found at www.arsc-audio.org.
Begun in 1991, the ARSC Awards are given to authors of books, articles or recording liner notes to recognize those publishing the very best work today in recorded sound research. In giving these awards, ARSC recognizes the contributions of these individuals and aims to encourage others to emulate their high standards and to promote readership of their work. Two awards are presented annually in each category, for best history and best discography, and several others are acknowledged with Certificates of Merit. Awards are presented to both the authors and publishers of winning publications.
Winners are chosen by a committee consisting of five elected judges representing specific fields of study, in addition to the editor of the ARSC Journal and the President and Past-President of ARSC. The 2010 ARSC Awards Committee consists of the following:
Dan Morgenstern (Jazz Music Judge)
Dennis Rooney (Classical Music Judge)
William L. Schurk (Popular Music Judge)
Mike Biel (Judge-At-Large)
Richard Spottswood (Judge-at-Large)
James Farrington (Book Review Editor, ARSC Journal)
Vincent Pelote (ARSC President)
David Seubert (immediate past-president)
Brenda Nelson-Strauss (ex-officio)
David Lewis (Awards Committee Co-Chair)
Roberta Freund Schwartz (Awards Committee Co-Chair)
The following works, published in 2011, have been selected as finalists:
Best Research in Recorded Rock and Pop Music:
Paul Hegarty and Martin Halliwell, Beyond and Before: Progressive Rock since the 1960s (Continuum)
Brian Tarquin, Recording Techniques of the Guitar Masters (Course Technology PTR)
Jake Brown, Tori Amos: in the studio (ECW)
Kevin Avery, Everything is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson (Fantagraphics Books)
Andrew Neill, Had Me A Real Good Time: The Faces: Before and After (Omnibus)
Jerry Shirley, Best Seat in the House: Drumming in the '70s with Marriott, Frampton, and Humble Pie (Rebeats)
Rick Simmons, Carolina Beach Music: The Classic Years (The History Press)
Barry Kernfeld, Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929 (University of Chicago Press)
Best Historical Research in Blues/Gospel/Hip-hop/R&B
Bob Riesman, I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy (University Of Chicago Press)
Philip R. Ratcliffe, Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues (University Press of Mississippi)
Preston Lauterbach, The Chitlin' Circuit and the Road to Rock and Roll (W. W. Norton)
Robert Ford and Bob McGrath, The Blues Discography 1971-2000: the later years: a selective discography (Eyeball Productions)
Best Research in Record Labels
Frank Andrews and Bill Dean-Myatt, Beka Records: A Discography (City of London Phonograph & Gramophone Society)
Kurt Nauck and Allan Sutton, The Indestructible/U-S Everlasting Cylinders: An Illustrated History and Cylinderography (Mainspring)
Robert Greenfield, The Last Sultan: The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun (Simon & Schuster)
Nathan Gibson, The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built (University Press of Mississippi)
Best Historical Research in Recorded Folk, Ethnic, or Country Music
Susan Masino, Family Tradition: Three Generations of Hank Williams (Backbeat)
Ted Olson, The Bristol Sessions, 1927-1928: The Big Bang of Country Music (Bear Family Records)
Alex Perullo, Live from Dar es Salaam (University of Indiana Press)
Larry Jordan, Jim Reeves: His Untold Story, The Life & Times of Country Music's Greatest Singer (PageTurner Books)
David Frizell, I Love You a Thousand Ways: The Lefty Frizell Story (Santa Monica Press)
Marty Godbey,Crowe on the Banjo: The Music Life of J.D. Crowe (University of Illinois Press)
Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz
Will Hermes, Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York that Changed Music (Faber and Faber)
Keith Waters, The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68 (Oxford)
Brian Harker, Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings (Oxford)
Ricky Riccardi, What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years(Pantheon)
Clark Terry, Clark: The Autobiography of Clark Terry (University of California Press)
Tad Hernshorn, Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice (University of California Press)
Amy C Beal, Carla Bley (University of Illinois Press)
Best Historical Research in Classical Music
Anatole Leikin, The Performing Style of Alexander Scriabin (Ashgate)
John Hunt, Discography of the Concert Hall Society and Concert Hall Record Club (John Hunt)
Michael Charry, George Szell: A Life of Music (University of Illinois Press)
Raymond Holden, Richard Strauss: A Musical Life (Yale University Press)
Stephen J. Gamble and William C. Lynch, Dennis Brain: A Life in Music (University of North Texas Press)
Best Historical Research on General Recording Topics
Jacob Smith, Spoken Word: Postwar American Phonograph Cultures (University of California Press)
The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson: Mississippi Burning and the Passage of the Civil Rights Act: June 1, 1964-July 4, 1964 (Vols. 7-8) (W. W. Norton)
