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2000 Winners (ARSC Awards for Excellence)

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Best Research in Recorded General Popular Music

Winner:
Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording
, by Charles L. Granata (A Capella Books)

Certificate of Merit:
Marigold: The Music of Billy Mayerl
, by Peter Dickinson (Oxford University Press)

Best Research in Recorded Classical Music

Winner:
More EJS: A Discography of the Edward J. Smith Recordings
, by William Shaman and William J. Collins (Greenwood Press)

Best Research in Recorded Rock, Rhythm & Blues, or Soul

Winner:
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
, by Peter Guralnick (Little Brown)

Certificate of Merit:
The Great Alternative Rock and Indie Discography, by Martin Strong (Canongate Press)

Best Research in Recorded Jazz, Blues, or Gospel (tie)

Winners:
Groovin' High: the Life of Dizzy Gillespie
, by Alyn Shipton (Oxford University Press)
Jimmy Dorsey: A Study in Contrasts, by Robert L. Stockdale (Scarecrow Press)

Best Research in Recorded Blues

Winner:
A Blues Life
, by Henry Townsend as told to Bill Greensmith (University of Illinois Press)

Best Research in Recorded Folk and Ethnic Music

Winner:
Klezmer: Jewish Music from the Old World to the New World
, by Henry Sapoznik (Schirmer)

Best Research in the General History of Recorded Sound

Winner:
A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography
, by Erika Brady (University Press of Mississippi)

Best Research in Record Labels or Manufacturers

Winner:
The Columbia Master Book Discography (4 vols.)
, by Tim Brooks and Brian Rust (Greenwood Press)

Certificate of Merit:
Little Wonders Records: A History and Discography
, ed. by Tim Brooks (New Amberola)

Best Research in Phonographs

Winner:
Antique Phonograph Gadgets, Gizmos, and Gimmicks
, by Timothy Fabrizio and George Paul (Schiffer Publishing Ltd.)

 

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