2002 Winners: ARSC Awards for Excellence

Winner:
Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The Early Years,1903-1940, by Gary Giddins (Little, Brown & Company, 2001)

Winner:
Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in Chinese Jazz Age, by Andrew F. Jones (Duke University Press)

Winner:
Discography of Western Swing and Hot String Bands, 1928-1942, by Cary Ginell and Kevin Coffey (Greenwood Press)

Best Discography:
Witold Lutoslawski: A Bio-Bibliography, by Stanislaw Bedkowski and Stinislaw Hrabia (Greenwood Press, 2001)

Best History:
Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations, by Bruno Monsaingeon, translated by Stewart Spencer (Princeton University Press, 2001)

Certificate of Merit:
Pietro Mascagni: A Bio-Bibliography, by Roger Flury (Greenwood Press, 2001)

Winner:
Orbison, by Colin Escott; discography by Richard Weize, notes to Bear Family CDs (2001)

Best History:
The Miller Companion to Jazz in Canada: And Canadians in Jazz, by Mark Miller (Mercury Press, 2001)

Certificate of Merit:
Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit, 1920-1960, by Lars Bjorn and Jim Gallert (University of Michigan Press, 2001)

Best Discography:
Brilliant Corners: A Bio-Discography of Thelonious Monk, compiled by Chris Sheridan (Greenwood Press, 2001)

Winner:
Screamin and Hollerin the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton, by David Evans, John Fahey, Edward Komara, Dick Spottswood notes to Revenant CDs (2001)

Winner:
Beyond Recall: A Record of Jewish Musical Life in Nazi Berlin, 1933-1938, by Rainer E. Lotz, Horst J. P. Bergmeier, and Ejal Jakob Eisler, notes to Bear Family CDs (2001)

Certificate of Merit:
Aural History: Essays on Recorded Sound, ed. by Andy Linehan (British Library, National Sound Archives, 2001)

Winner:
Brunswick Records: A Discography of Recordings, 1916-1931 [in 4 volumes], by Ross Laird (Greenwood Press, 2001)

Certificate of Merit:
Okeh Race Records: The 8000 "Race" Series, by Laurie Wright (Self-published, 2001)

Winners:
Broadcast Transcription Discs, by James R. Powell, Jr.(Gramophone Adventures, 2001)
Phonographs With Flair: A Century of Style in Sound Reproduction, by Timothy C. Fabrizio and George F. Paul (Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001)