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2004 Winners: ARSC Awards for Excellence

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Best Research in Recorded Popular Music

Best Discography:
Paul Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music, 1890-1930
by Don Rayno (Scarecrow Press)

Best History:
Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions
by Mark Eden Horowitz and Stephen Sondheim (Scarecrow Press)

Best Research in Recorded Classical Music

Winner:
Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performance Style
by Michael Musgrave (ed.) and Bernard D. Sherman (ed.) (Cambridge University Press)

Best Research in Recorded Rock, Rhythm & Blues, or Soul (two winners; a tie)

Winners:
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)

Best Research in Recorded Jazz

Best History:
Good Vibes: A Life in Jazz
by Terry Gibbs with Cary Ginell (Scarecrow Press)

Best Discography:
Jean “Django” Reinhardt: A Contextual Bio-Discography, 1910-1953
by Paul Vernon (Ashgate)

Best Research Recorded Blues and Gospel Music

Winner:
Great God a’Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music by J. Jerome Zolten (Oxford University Press)

Best Research in Record Labels or Manufacturers

Winner:
Folkways Records: Moses Asch and his Encyclopedia of Sound
by Anthony Olmstead (Routledge)

 

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