2007 Winners: ARSC Awards for Excellence
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1999
[ Best Research in Recorded Blues, Rhythm & Blues, or Soul Music ]
Best Discography The 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 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, U.S.A.: 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: Trinidad Calypsos 1938-1940 discographyby 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 Rodriguez 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 Postwar American Recording by Tim J. Anderson (University of Minnesota Press) |
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[ Best Research in Record Labels ]
Best Discography The Plaza-ARC Discography (Volume I: U.S. Issues, 1922-31)  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) |
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[ Best Research in Recorded Rock Music ]
Best Discography The Unreleased Beatles: Music and 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).
