Research Grant Recipients (ARSC Grants Committee)
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a year: 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Grants Program is designed to encourage and support scholarship and publication by individuals in the field of sound recordings or audio preservation.
2012 Grants
Meghan Forsyth, Memorial University of Newfoundland
A grant of $1000 to assist in funding travel and lodging to Moncton, New Brunswick and the Magdalen Islands to study important sources, including recordings of musicians of older generations and historical information and to interview culture-bearers. Local recording artists and engineers, and arts administrators for her project on the impact of sound recordings on Acadian music traditions of les Iles-de-la-Madeleine.
Jane K. Mathieu, University of Texas, at Austin
A grant of $1000 to help in funding travel and lodging to New York City and Washington, D.C. for her project: "'Over There' Over Here: performing the American Home-Front during World War I", which will contribute to her dissertation in Historical Musicology on the topic of redefining Tin Pan Alley in relation to American collective identity, 1890-1920.
2011 Grants
Jocelyn Arem
A grant of $500 to assist in funding travel for the final phase of research towards a book publication, website, and addition of newly discovered audio files to the Caffé Lena Collection in the Archive of Folk Culture – Caffé Lena being the oldest continuously running folk music coffeehouse and important in the 20th-century folk revival.
David Font-Navarrete
A grant of $1000 to assist in funding travel, lodging, and food expenses for research on his project to catalogue, edit, and annotate several hours of unique recordings of Jola music made by J. David Sapir in West Africa between 1960 and 1970, with the eventual preparation of articles and a book and a plan to publish selected recordings in a multi-media release.
Susan Schmidt-Horning
A grant of $500 to assist in funding preparation of the index for her book: Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording in America, the first history of the recording industry from the perspective of the technical and creative teams, which is under contract to Johns Hopkins University Press.
2010 Grants
Ian R. MacMillen
A grant of $667 to assist in funding costs of travel to Zagreb, Croatia to conduct interviews and research for his project: An historical and ethnographic study of the transnational impact of Tambura music recordings from Croatia, 1989 - 2010: transition in Croatia's sound recording industry after communism and the 1990's Balkan conflicts.
Rachel Reynolds-Luster
A grant of $667 to assist with travel, copying, and printing costs for her project to produce a discography of Arkansas fiddle music: archival, self-produced, and commercial recordings 1920's through 2010, including individual and groups in which the fiddle is a lead instrument.
The Reverend Jerome F. Weber
A grant of $667 to help underwrite the creation of a web site that will make a relational database available in searchable form as an extension of the applicant's A Gregorian Chant Discography, published in 1990 with the help of an ARSC grant.
2009 Grants
Jocelyn Arem
A grant of $500 to assist in funding travel, written transcription, and editing in continuing research on the Recorded American Folksong Revival movement through gaining information from Professor John Nazarenko about his recordings of Caffé Lena performances.
Justin Scarimbolo
A grant of $1000 to assist in funding travel expenses for a trip to India to interview musicians and to visit sound and print archives, following up on his thesis on the subject of Hindustani music and its recorded dimension.
Sarah Ziebell
A grant of $1000 to assist in funding travel, lodging, and incidental expenses for a trip to Berea College to study materials in the John Lair Collection and related holdings of materials on rural radio and Appalachian music and performers, in order to produce an article for publication and to form a basis to seek a research fellowship.
2008 Grants
James Ruchala
A grant of $1000 to assist in funding travel and lodging expenses for research into the history and impact of County and Heritage records: the old-time music of Surry County, North Carolina, the area famous for producing the "Round Peak" style and repertory.
Laura Schnitker
A grant of $1000 to assist in funding travel and lodging expenses for research on her doctoral dissertation: to examine how freeform radio has fostered the construction of indie music communities in the United States, based on research on KPFA-FM, Berkeley, CA at the Pacifica Radio Archives.
2007 Grants
Joel Bresler
A grant of $1000, to help support his trip to Israel to study the important holdings of the Kol Yisrael (Voice of Israel) broadcast service for his project to assemble and publish a comprehensive database of Sephardic recordings, in conjunction with the Jewish Music Research Centre at Hebrew University.
Robert E. Hunter
A grant of $1000, to help support travel and documentary costs for research on recorded programs at the National Archives, College Park, MD for his doctoral dissertation in History at the University of Illinois at Chicago : "Fingers on the Button: American atomic policy in mainstream film, radio, and television, 1945 - 1960."
Kevin Mungons, Director of the American Gospel Music Archive
A grant of $500, to support travel and lodging expenses from Iowa to North Carolina to perform research for a discography of the gospel singer George Beverly Shea while Mr. Shea is still alive and active enough to assist.
Dr. Risto Pekka Pannanen, Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
A grant of $500, to help with travel and lodging (Novi Sad and Belgrade) for his research project: "Recording activity, musicians, and marketing before the First World War in Bosnia, Vojvodina, and Serbia."
2006 Grants
Shalini Ayyagari
A grant of $1000, to assist in the study of interviews and recordings of performances of Lahka Khan Manganiar as a Manganiar caset musician and a Sindhi Sarangi player: his repertoire, musical learning processes, the intricacies of the raga and song systems, and the transmission of Manganiar musical knowledge and traditions.
Don Rayno
A grant of $1000, to help in research for Volume 2 of the biography and discography: "Paul Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music", including a complete study of the recordings Whiteman made for Victor 1931 - 1942.
Jessica Wood
A grant of $1000, to assist her analysis of long-playing record albums in a study of the relationship between the harpsichord's sound & image and pop music in postwar popular culture.
