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2013 ARSC Conference Recordings

ARSC is pleased to make sound and video recordings of presentations at ARSC's 47th Annual Conference in Kansas City, Missouri 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 2013 ARSC Conference Program.


Thursday, May 16, 2013

FROM KC JAZZ TO DELTA BLUES
Steve Weiss, chair

Chuck Haddix
Early Bird: The Life, Career, and Recordings of Charlie Parker in Kansas City
audio | video | slides

Seth B. Winner
Robert Johnson: A Centennial Celebration Reissue
audio | video | slides

 

ARTISTS & REPERTOIRE: JAZZ
Tim Brooks, chair

Michael Katzman
Louis Katzman:
His Musical Life From Vaudeville to BMI

audio | video | slides

Cary Ginell
Billy Eckstine:
The Rise and Fall of the Fabulous Mr. B

audio | video | slides

 

ARTISTS & REPERTOIRE: JAZZ AND BLUES
Steve Ramm, chair

Dr. Rainer Lotz
American Jazz Bands in the Weimar Republic:
Shaping Style in the Diaspora and Unnoticed at Home
audio | video | slides

Philip R. Ratcliffe
Mississippi John Hurt: A Visual and Acoustic Biography
audio | video

Bruce Epperson
More Important than the Music: A History of Jazz Discography
audio | video | slides

 

ARTISTS & REPERTOIRE: JAZZ AND BLUES
Richard Markow, chair

Roberta Freund Schwartz
Sweet Home Chicago:
Recording Blues in the Windy City in the 1930s
audio | video | slides

Allison Schein, Patrick Seymour
Preserving Chicago's Living History of Improvised Music
audio | video | slides

Joshua Lane
Transcription of Archival Recordings from
the Avant Garde Coffeehouse
audio | video | slides

 

ISSUES IN ANALOG CARRIERS
Tony Tadey, chair

Eric Breitung, Samantha Skelton, Brianna Cassidy,
Lu Zhenyu, Juan Rodriguez, and Stephen Morgan
A Rapid and Non-Destructive Pre-playback
Tape Degradation Identification Method
audio | video

Jacob Smith
All Natural Discs
audio | video | slides

Tore Simonsen
The Norwegian Shellac Project
audio | video

 

 

TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
Marcos Sueiro Bal, Mark Hood, Co-Chairs

Gimme Your Gigabytes:
Digital Storage Options For Small Audio Archives

Chris Lacinak, John Spencer, and Chuck Haddix
audio | audio | slides (Lacinak) | slides (Spencer)

 

 

ARTISTS & REPERTOIRE: FROM LAUGHTER TO TEARS
Susan Hooyenga, chair

Robert O'Brien
John Gielgud: Recordings Ignored
audio | video | slides (zip)

Michael Biel
From Laughter to Tragedy 50 Years Ago: The Two Most Unusual Christmas Record Seasons
audio | video | slides

Daniel Blazek
Stand-up State of the Nation
audio | video | slides


Friday, May 17, 2013

KANSAS CITY!
Matthew Barton, chair

Jim O'Neal
12th Street & Vine: Kansas City Blues
audio | video | slides

Dawayne Gilley
Numero Eccentric Soul: The Forte Label Story
audio | video | slides

 

ARTISTS & REPERTOIRE: CLASSICAL
Al Schlachtmeyer, chair

Diane Napert
The Unpublished Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2:
Vladimir Horowitz and Bruno Walter

video

Dennis Rooney
Eugene Goossens: Conductor of the Future
audio | video | slides

Russell Miller
Conducted by the Composer?
Examining Recordings Attributed to Sibelius and Prokofiev
audio | video | slides

 

SOUND ALL AROUND
George Blood, chair

Jessica Wood
Amplified Plunks:
Recording the Harpsichord's Weakness in Postwar Exotica
audio | video | slides

Barry Kernfeld
Surveillance Tapes from the Alabama Civil Rights Movement
audio | video | slides

George Laszlo
Taxi Music: A Century of Sound
audio | video


ARTISTS & REPERTOIRE: OPERA
Dennis Rooney, chair

Seth B. Winner
Remembering David Hamilton: 1935-2013
audio | video | slides

Gary Galo
Lauritz Melchior: A 40th Anniversary Tribute
audio | video | slides

Gary Thalheimer
Wagnerians in Verdi and Vice Versa
audio | video

 

VOICES OF THE CENTURY
Kim Peach, chair

Warren Sherk and Teague Schneiter
Preserving and Disseminating Film Voices:
The Academy of Oral History Program
audio | video | slides

Karen Fishman, Maya Lerman
Not Just Talking to Myself:
Studs Terkel's Music Interviews
audio | video | slides

Ralph Pugh
Audio Files on the 'Voices of the Holocaust' Website
audio | video | slides

 

NATIONAL RECORDING PRESERVATION PLAN PLENARY
Mike Casey, chair

Patrick Feaster, Josh Harris and Chris Lacinak
Inventory, Census, and Prioritization of Media Collections
audio | video | slides (Harris)
slides (Casey/Feaster) | slides (Lacinak)

 

ACCESS TO COLLECTIONS
Robin Pike, chair

Tyra Grant and Brandon Burke
From Audio House to the Roundhouse:
Profiling Unique Collections Requiring Diverse Solutions

audio | video

Jolene Beiser
"Page Not Found":
The Highs and Lows of Developing
a Customizable, Online Content Management System
for Community-based Audio Recordings

audio | video

Guha Shankar
Please Mind the Gap:
Civil Rights Collections Then and Now
in the American Folklife Center
at the Library of Congress
audio | video


Saturday, May 18, 2013

NATIONAL RECORDING PRESERVATION PLAN PLENARY
George Blood, chair

Pat Loughney and Brenda Nelson-Strauss
Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan Introduction

audio | video | slides

Tim Brooks
Copyright Developments
audio | video

Bob Heiber, Carl Haber, Peter Alyea
Technological Innovation
audio | video

Sam Brylawski
Implementing the Plan: Opportunities, Obstacles and ARSC
audio | video

 

ARTISTS & REPERTOIRE: INTERNATIONAL
Richard Markow, chair

Amy Stillman
Beyond the Reef:
Tracking the Global Circulation of Hawaiian Music Recordings
audio | video | slides

Graham McDonald
Hawaiian Music in Australia: Rediscovering a Lost Genre
audio | video | slides

 

ARTISTS & REPERTOIRE: INTERNATIONAL
Barry Stapleton, chair

Joshua Brown
Cassettes and Community:
The Life of Morón's "Fiesta Tapes"
audio | video

Jeff Ksiazek
The Fox Chase:
Tracking Members of Paddy Killoran's Irish Orchestra
audio | video | slides

 

NATIONAL RECORDING PRESERVATION PLAN #2
Bob Heiber, chair

Education Panels
Kimberly Peach and Jonathan Furner
Karen Fishman and Aaron Bittel
Marcos Sueiro Bal and Mark Hood
audio | video | slides (Peach) | slides (Furner)

 

 

NATIONAL RECORDING PRESERVATION PLAN #3
David Seubert, chair

Funding Panel
Al Schlachtmeyer, Gerald Seligman, Joshua Sternfeld
audio | video

Sam Brylawski
Ask Not What the Plan Can Do For You:
The Plan, ARSC, and You

audio | video

 

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