2011 ARSC Conference Recordings

ARSC is pleased to make sound and video recordings of presentations at ARSC's 45th Annual Conference in Los Angeles, California available online.

In addition to sound and video recordings of each session, supplementary material furnished by presenters, such as PowerPoint slides, will be made available here as it is received (please send any such submissions to Patrick Feaster).

Abstracts of sessions may be found in the 2011 ARSC Conference Program.

Thursday, May 12, 2011

MAKING HISTORIC RECORDINGS ACCESSIBLE
Tim Brooks, chair

Tim Brooks, Eric Harbeson (introduced by David Giovannoni)
Latest Copyright Developments
audio | video | slides (Brooks)

David Giovannoni, Sam Brylawski, David Seubert, Caitlin Hunter, Dawn Frank
National Jukebox Demo & Panel
audio | video

David Sager
Pre-Matrix Victor Recordings in the National Jukebox:
The Giovannoni-Lynch Collection
audio | video

ARTISTS & REPERTOIRE: JAZZ
Roberta Freund Schwartz, chair

Doug Pomeroy, Susan Schmidt Horning
Bill Savory Collection: 1930s Broadcast Recordings
audio | video

Michael Heller
The Juma Sultan Archive, 1970s NYC Loft Recordings
audio | video

ARTISTS & REPERTOIRE: ROCK
Brenda Nelson-Strauss, chair

Joe Travers, Gail Zappa
Preserving and Protecting the Frank Zappa Archive

Julie Grob
Documenting Houston Hip Hop
audio (part 1) | video (YouTube) | audio (part 2) | video

ARTISTS & REPERTOIRE: AROUND THE WORLD
Rich Markow, chair

Eugene Platonov
Samuil Feinberg's Phonographic Legacy
audio | video

Carlos Palombini
George W. Johnson's Lundu: Early Brazilian Recordings
audio | video

Rainer Lotz
The Black Europe Reissue Project
audio | video | slides

ARTISTS & REPERTOIRE: COUNTRY
Steve Ramm, chair

Tom Diamant
Bob Wills Tiffany Transcriptions, 1946-47
audio | video

Nate Gibson
The Starday Story: Lefty Frizzell, Bluegrass, and the King Connection
audio | video

HISTORICAL FRONTIERS
Kurt Nauck, chair

Patrick Feaster
Phonogram Images on Paper, 1250-1950
audio | video | slides

Paul Mahern
No Better Than This - Vintage Recording in the Digital Age
audio | video

ARCHIVES
Aaron Bittel, chair

Peggy Alexander
Music Industry Related Collections at UCLA
audio

Anthony Seeger, Maureen Russell, David Martinelli
Ethnographic Sound Archives
audio | video

Emily Clark
Providing Access to The Bascom Lamar Lunsford Collection
at Columbia University
audio | video

Wendy Sistrunk, Sandy Rodriguez
Providing Bibliographic Access
to Archival Sound Recording Collections:
A Case from the J. David Goldin Collection
of Transcription Discs at UMKC
audio | video | slides

Friday, May 13, 2011

RADIO AND RECORDS
William Schurk, chair

Michael Sherman, Kurt Nauck
Collectors Guide to Victor Records
audio | video

Scot Brown
The Legacy of Dick Griffey and SOLAR Records
audio | video

Cary Ginell with Sam Riddle
KHJ: The Boss Radio Revolution of the Late 1960s
audio | video

ARCHIVES
David Seubert, chair

Frank Ferko
Uncovering Hidden Treasures from
the Ambassador Auditorium
audio | video

Kim Walters
The Lummis Cylinder Collection:
Early Voices from the Southwest
audio | video

David Lewis (read by Tim Brooks)
The H.K. McKechnie Collection in the Library of Congress
audio | video

Chris Lacinak
Digital Audio Interstitial Errors:
Raising Awareness and Developing
New Methodologies for Detection
audio | video

LOS ANGELES RECORDING LEGENDS

Modern Records: A Conversation with Recording Pioneer Joe Bihari
Moderated by John Broven
audio | video

Television and the Record Industry: A Conversation with Ron Dante, Wink Martindale, and Paul Petersen
Moderated by Stuart Shostak
audio | video

ARTISTS & REPERTOIRE: COUNTRY & CITY BLUES
Rich Markow, chair

William Ferris
Give My Poor Heart Ease:
Voices of the Mississippi Blues
audio | video

Roberta Freund Schwartz
How Blue Can You Get: "Tight Like That"
and the Hokum Blues Tradition
audio | video

EARLY RECORDING HISTORY
David Giovannoni, chair

Dr. Mike Khanchalian, Charley Hummel
The Rediscovery, Restoration, and Resurrection
of the Lost Columbia Multiplex Graphophone Cylinder
of 1900
audio | video

John Levin, Dan Reed
1891 Brown Wax Stereo
audio | video

Chris Strachwitz with Mark and Dan Guerrero
History of Recording Vernacular Mexican Music
in Los Angeles, With a Tribute to Lalo Guerrero
– Its Most Important 20th Century Figure
audio | video

ARSC'S TECHNICAL COMMITTEE PRESENTS
John Spencer, chair

David Seubert, George Blood
Outsourcing Audio Preservation Work
audio | video

POLITICS ON RECORD
William Schurk, chair

Cary McStay, Timothy Naftali, Mark Sgambettera
Working in the White House:
Nixon Era White House Recordings
audio | video

Lance Christensen
Recordings of Colorado Gov. Ralph Carr, 1941-43
audio | video

David Giovannoni
Open Session on Humanity's First Recordings Project
audio

Saturday, May 14, 2011

ARTISTS & REPERTOIRE: FOLKWAYS
Roberta Freund Schwartz, chair

Joe Weed
The Blue Bonnet Music Company and the Making of an American Memory, The "Westphalia Waltz"
audio | video

David Pokrajac, Milan Milovanovic, Sasa Spasojevic
Recordings of Mijat Mijatovic (Serbian)
audio | video

YOUNG SCHOLARS, AND MORE
Aaron Bittel, chair

Pamela Baird
UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive:
The Establishment of a Premiere Sound Archive, 1960-1982
audio | video

Iris Yellum
Voices of North Indian Classical Music
in Non-Traditional Contexts
audio | video

Birgitta Johnson
Gospel music in L.A.
audio

Jesse Feyen
The Role of the Internet in Discovering Rare Recordings and Discographies Relating to Southern Gospel Music
audio | video

SOUND ON FILM
David Giovannoni, chair

Chris Hunter
The Pallophotophone:
Recovering 1920s Multi-Track Sound-on-Film Recordings
audio | video

Nicholas Bergh
Multi-track Optical Recording in Hollywood 1930s-50s

Phil Gries, Scott Ellsworth
Scott's Place (1970-72): KFI Los Angeles Radio
audio | video | slides

TECHNICAL
Bill Klinger, chair

Gary Gottlieb
Evolution of Audio Engineering
audio

Cassandra Gallegos
And the Survey Says... But the Data Says...
audio

Rob Poretti
Audio Analysis and Processing in Multi-Media File Formats
slides

A VISIT WITH NORMAN CORWIN
Mike Biel, chair

Mike Biel
Discussion and Montage
audio | video

Recreation of "The Undecided Molecule" (1945)
(ARSC Members Only)
Featuring: Phil Proctor, Janet Waldo, Richard Herd, Dick Van Patten,
Melinda Peterson, Marvin Kaplan, Ivan Cury, Tommy Cook, and Norman Lloyd
audio | video

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