ARSC Awards for Excellence: 2007 Winners

[ Best Research in Recorded Blues, Rhythm & Blues, or Soul Music ]

Best Discography

Blues Discography, 1943–1970
comp. Les Fancourt;
prod. by Bob McGrath
(Eyeball Productions)

Best History

Encyclopedia of the Blues
ed. by Edward Komara
(Routledge)

Certificate of Merit

Presence and Pleasure:
The Funk Grooves of James Brown and Parliament
by Anne Danielsen
(Wesleyan University Press)

[ Best Research in Recorded Classical Music ]

Best Discography

New York Philharmonic: The Authorized Recordings, 1917–2005, A Discography by James H. North
(Scarecrow Press)

Best History

Lionel Tertis: The First Great
Virtuoso of the Viola
by John White
(Boydell Press)

Certificate of Merit

Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States: Crossing the Line by Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner (Ashgate)

[ Best Research in Recorded Country Music ]

Best Discography

Old Shep: The Red Foley Recordings, 1933–1950 liner notes by Cary Ginell (Bear Family)

Best History

How Nashville Became Music
City USA: 50 Years of Music Row by Michael Kosser (Hal Leonard)

Certificate of Merit

No One To Cry To: A Long, Hard Ride Into the Sunset with Foy Willing of the Riders of the Purple Sage by Sharon Lee Willing (Wheatmark)

[ Best Recorded Folk, Ethnic, or World Music ]

Best Discography

West Indian Rhythm discography
by John Cowley, Donald R. Hill,
Dick Spottswood (Bear Family)

Best History

The Dawn of Indian Music in the West
by Peter Lavezzoli
(Continuum)

Certificate of Merit

Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin
Popular Music by David F. García
(Temple University Press)

Certificate of Merit

America's Polka King: The Real Story of Frankie Yankovic and His Music
by Bob Dolgan (Gray & Co.)

Certificate of Merit

Texas Zydeco by Roger Wood; photography by James Fraher
(University of Texas Press)

[ Best Research in General History of Recorded Sound ]

Best History

A Shot in the Dark: Making Records in Nashville, 1945-1955 by Martin Hawkins (Vanderbilt University Press/
Country Music Foundation)

Certificate of Merit

Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Post-War American Recording by Tim J. Anderson (University of Minnesota Press)

[ Best Research in Record Labels ]

Best Discography

The Plaza-ARC Discography,
vol. 1 (1922-1931)
by Billie W. Thomas and Allan Sutton
(Mainspring Press)

Best History

The House That Trane Built:
The Story of Impulse Records
by Ashley Kahn (W.W. Norton)

Certificate of Merit

Rough Trade
by Rob Young
(Black Dog)

[ Best Research in Recorded Jazz Music ]

Best Discography Bags’ Grooves: A Discography of Milt Jackson by Chris Sheridan (Names & Numbers)	Best History Rhythm Is Our Business: Jimmie Lunceford and the Harlem Express by Eddy Determeyer (University of Michigan Press)	Certificate of Merit Fats Waller on the Air: The Radio Broadcasts and Discography by Stephen Taylor (Scarecrow Press)
Certificate of Merit All of Me: The Complete Discography of Louis Armstrong by Jos Willems (Scarecrow Press)	Certificate of Merit Someone To Watch Over Me: The Life and Music of Ben Webster by Frank Büchmann-Møller (University of Michigan Press)	Certificate of Merit City of Gabriels: The History of Jazz in St. Louis, 1895–1973 by Dennis Owsley (Reedy Press)
Certificate of Merit The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles by Steven Louis Isoardi (University of California Press)

[ Best Research in Recorded Popular Music ]

Best Discography The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa by Paul Bierley (University of Illinois Press)	Best History George Gershwin: His Life and Work by Howard Pollack (University of California Press)	Certificate of Merit Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music by Mark J. Butler (Indiana University Press)
Certificate of Merit Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air: Legends of West Texas Music by Christopher J. Oglesby (University of Texas Press)

[ Best Research in Recorded Rock Music ]

Best Discography The Unreleased Beatles: Music & Film by Richie Unterberger (Backbeat Books)	Best History Endless Enigma: A Musical Biography of Emerson, Lake and Palmer by Edward Macan (Open Court)	Certificate of Merit The Words and Music of Frank Zappa by Kelly Fisher Lowe (Praeger)
Certificate of Merit Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock’n’ Roll by Rick Coleman (Da Capo Press)

For more information, contact either Roberta Freund or Robert Iannapollo of the Eastman School of Music.

Winners are chosen by an ARSC Awards Committee consisting of five elected judges representing specific fields of study, in addition to the editor of the ARSC Journal and the President of ARSC. The 2007 ARSC Awards Committee consists of the following: Roberta Freund-Schwartz (Awards Committee Co-Chair); Robert Iannapollo (Awards Committee Co-Chair); Sam Brylawski (ARSC President); Brenda Nelson-Strauss (Immediate Past-President); Jim Farrington (Book Review Editor, ARSC Journal); David Hamilton (Classical Music Judge); Kip Lornell (Judge-At-Large); Dan Morgenstern (Jazz Music Judge); William L. Schurk (Popular Music Judge); and Dick Spottswood (Judge-at-Large).