2009 Winners: ARSC Awards for Excellence
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1999
[ Best Research in Recorded Blues, Rhythm & Blues, or Soul Music ]
Best Discography I Got Two Wings: Incidents and Anecdotes of the Two Winged Preacher and Electric Guitar Evangelist, Elder Utah Smith by Lynn Abbot (Case Quarter |
Certificate of Merit Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound  by Alan B. Govenar (Texas A&M Press) |
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[ Best Research in Recorded Classical Music ]
Best Discography Boston Symphony Orchestra: An Augmented Discography by James H. North (Scarecrow Press) |
Best History Charles Ives Omnibus (Monographs & Bibliographies in American Music, No. 18)  by James Mack Burk (Pendragon) |
Certificate of Merit After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance  by Kenneth Hamilton (Oxford University Press) |
Certificate of Merit Sprechstimme in Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire: A Study of Vocal Performance Practice by Aidan Soder (Edwin Mellen Press) |
[ Best Research in Recorded Country Music ]
Best Work Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South 
by Patrick Huber (University of North Carolina Press) |
Certificate of Merit Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens 
by Hazel Dickens and Bill C. Malone (University of Illinois Press) |
Certificate of Merit Merle Haggard: Concepts Live…1968-1976 by Deke Dickerson (Bear Family) |
[ Best Recorded Folk, Ethnic, or World Music ]
Best Work Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935–1968 
by Anthony Macias (Duke University Press) |
Certificate of Merit Lemko Folk Music on Wax Cylinders and American Recordings, 1901-1930 by Bogdan Horbal and Walter Maksimovich (self-published) |
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[ Best Research in General History of Recorded Sound ]
Best Work Den Talande Maskinen: De Forsta Inspelade Ljuden I Sverige Och Norden (The Talking Machine: The First Recorded Sounds in Sweden and Scandinavia) by Tony Franzén, Gunnar Sundberg, and Lars Thelander (Suomen Äänitearkisto/Finlands Ljudarkiv) |
Certificate of Merit Sound Media: A Theory of Live Journalism and Musical Recording 
by Lars Nyre (Routledge) |
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[ Best Research in Record Labels ]
Best Dicography Montgomery Ward Records: A Discography by Allan Sutton (Mainspring Press) |
Best History Revolutionizing Children's Records: The Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild Series, 1946-1977 
by David Bonner (Scarecrow Press) |
Certificate of Merit The Edison Discography (1926-29) 
by Raymond R. Wile (Mainspring Press) |
[ Best Research in Recorded Jazz Music ]
Best Work The John Coltrane Reference 
by Chris DeVito, David Wild, Yasuhiro Fujioka, and Wolf Schmaler; edited by Lewis Porter (Routledge) |
Best History A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music 
by George E. Lewis (University of Chicago Press) |
Certificate of Merit Backstory in Blue: Ellington at Newport '56 
by John Fass Morton (Rutgers University Press) |
Certificate of Merit Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs 
by Milt Hinton, David Berger and Holly Maxson (Vanderbilt University Press) |
Certificate of Merit Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop 
by Jeremy Yudkin (Indiana University Press) |
Certificate of Merit Luck's In My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page 
by Todd Bryant Weeks (Routledge) |
Certificate of Merit Delightfulee: The Life and Music of Lee Morgan 
by Jeffrey McMillan (University of Michigan Press) |
Certificate of Merit Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making 
by Gabriel Solis (University of California Press) |
[ Best Research in Recorded Rock and Popular Music ]
Best Work Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music) 
by Olivier Julien (Ashgate) |
Certificate of Merit Mondo Exotica: Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation 
by Francesco Adinolfi (Duke University Press) |
Certificate of Merit So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star: The Byrds Day-by-Day, 1965-1973 
by Christopher Hjort (Jawbone Press) |
Certificate of Merit Hot Burritos: The True Story of The Flying Burrito Brothers 
by John Einarson and Chris Hillman (Jawbone Press) |
For more information, contact either Roberta Freund Schwartz (University of Kansas) or Robert Iannapollo (Eastman School of Music).
Winners are chosen by the ARSC Awards Committee: five elected judges representing specific fields of study, plus the ARSC President, and the Book Review Editor of the ARSC Journal. The members of the 2009 ARSC Awards Committee are: Robert Iannapollo (Awards Committee Co-Chair); Roberta Freund-Schwartz (Awards Committee Co-Chair); Brenda Nelson-Strauss (Awards Committee); David Seubert (ARSC 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); Dick Spottswood (Judge-at-Large).
