2010 Winners: ARSC Awards for Excellence
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1999
[ Best Research in Recorded Blues, Gospel, Rhythm & Blues, or Soul Music ]
Best Work Chuck Berry International Directory,  by Morten Reff (Music Mentor Books) |
Certificate of Merit Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues  , by William Ferris (Universityof North Carolina Press) |
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Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell |
, by Michael Gray (Chicago Review Press)[ Best Research in Recorded Classical Music ]
Best Work Kirill Kondrashin: His Life in Music  , by Gregor Tassie (Scarecrow) |
Certificate of Merit Othmar Schoeck: Life and Works  , by Chris Walton (Rochester University Press) |
[ Best Research in Recorded Country Music ]
Best Work Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times  , by Ralph Stanley and Eddie Dean (Gotham) |
Certificate of Merit The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Legacy in Country Music , by Jocelyn R. Neal (Indiana University Press) |
[ Best Recorded Folk, Ethnic, or World Music ]
Best DiscographyLa Musique antillaise en France discographie 1929-1959 / French-Caribbean Music in France a Discography 1929-1959, by Alain Boulanger, John Cowley and Marc Monneraye (AFAS) |
Best History Wildman of Rhythm: The Life and Music of Benny Moré  , by John Radanovich (Florida University Press)
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Certificate of Merit Ramblin' Jack Elliott: The Never-Ending Highway, by Hank Reineke (Scarecrow) |
[ Best Research in General History of Recorded Sound ]
Best Work How Does It Sound Now?: Legendary Engineer and Vintage Gear, by Gary Gottlieb (Course Technology PTR) |
Certificate of Merit Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music  , by David Suisman (Harvard University Press) |
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[ Best Research in Record Labels ]
Best Work Three Score & Ten: Topic Records at 70  , by David Suff (Topic Records) |
Certificate of Merit King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records  , by John Hartley Fox (University of Illinois Press) |
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[ Best Research in Recorded Jazz Music ]
Best History (tie) Jade Visions: The Life and Music of Scott LaFaro , by Helene LaFaro-Fernández (University of North Texas Press) |
Best History (tie) The Ghosts of Harlem: Sessions with Jazz Legends  , by Hank O’Neal (Vanderbilt University Press) |
Certificate of Merit From Harlem to Hollywood: My Life in Music  , by Van Alexander and Stephen Fratallone (Bear Manor) |
[ Best Research in Recorded Rock and Popular Music ]
Best Work American Dance Bands on Record and Film, 1915-1942, by Richard J. Johnson and Bernhard H. Shirley (Rustbooks) |
Best History Perry Como: A Biography and Complete Career Record  , by Malcolm Macfarlane and Ken Crossland (McFarland) |
Certificate of Merit Sonic Boom! The History of Northwest Rock: From Louie Louie to Smells Like Teen Spirit , by Peter Blecha (Backbeat) |
Certificate of Merit Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers (Music in American Life), by John Broven (University of Illinois Press) |
For more information, contact either Roberta Freund Schwartz (University of Kansas).
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: Dennis Rooney (Classical Music Judge) Cary Ginell (Judge-At-Large) Dan Morgenstern (Jazz Music Judge) William L. Schurk (Popular Music Judge) Dick Spottswood (Judge-at-Large) Jim Farrington (Book Review Editor, ARSC Journal) Brenda Nelson-Strauss (ex-oficio) Vincent Pelote (ARSC President) Roberta Freund Schwartz (Awards Committee Co-Chair), David Lewis (Awards Committee Co-Chair)
