2014 ARSC Conference Recordings

ARSC is pleased to make sound and video recordings of presentations at ARSC's 48th Annual Conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina available online as a benefit to members.

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Video recordings of selected presentations, indicated here by an asterisk (*), are available to the public on ARSC's YouTube Channel.

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 2014 ARSC Conference Program.

Recordings of sessions may be ordered using the ARSC Publications Order Form

Thursday, May 15, 2014

MUSICAL RECYCLING: PRODUCING REISSUES THROUGH THE YEARS
David Giovannoni, moderator; Chris Strachwitz (Arhoolie), David Freeman (County), Richard Nevins (Yazoo),
Richard Weize (Bear Family), Richard Martin (Archeophone), Lance Ledbetter (Dust-to-Digital)
audio | video

SOUTHERN MUSIC

Steve Weiss
From the Piedmont to the Swamplands:
Preserving Southern Traditional Music
audio | video

LABELS & LOCALS

Jay Bruder
Early Bluegrass Labels: Laying the Foundation
audio | video

Kip Lornell
Rebel Records:
The D.C. Bluegrass Connection
audio | video

Dick Spottswood
The Blue Sky Boys
audio | video

FIELDWORK

Cary Ginell
Donald Lee Nelson: The Last Fieldworker
audio | video

Guha Shankar, Todd Harvey, Nicole Saylor, Maggie Kruesi
Emergent Traditions: Considering Alan Lomax's
1938 Michigan Song Collecting Trip in the Light of a New Day
audio | video

TELEVISION & RADIO

Seth Winner
Kovacs on Music: A 95th Anniversary Celebration
video

Phil Gries
Lost CBS Television Broadcasts
audio | video

Daniel Blazek
Cavett's Radio Show Comedians
video

PASSING THE BATON

Mike Casey & Chris Lacinak
The End of Analog Audiovisual Media:
The Cost of Inaction and What You Can Do
audio | video | slides (Casey)

CLASSICAL MUSIC & ARCHIVING

Steve Smolian
What Professional Sound Recording Cataloging
Could Tell All of Us
audio | video

Andy Moyer
When Is a Junk Record Really Junk?
Re-assembling Operas from the Acoustic Era
audio | video | slides

POPULAR MUSIC OF THE '50S AND '60S

David Lewis
When Summer Is Gone:
The Life & Legacy of Bandleader Hal Kemp
audio | video

Dennis Rooney
Liberace: Entertainer at the Piano
audio | video

ORAL HISTORIES & REGIONAL COLLECTIONS

Amye McCarther
Oral Histories From Houston's Andrus Studios: A Use Case in Scalar
audio | video | video *

Callie Holmes
Digitizing an Archival Oral History Collection with Limited Resources
audio | video

Rabia Gibbs
The University of Tennessee's WWII Oral History Digitization Project
audio | video

Josh May
Defining Mtn. Music: A History of June Appal Recordings
audio | video

Friday, May 16, 2014

WHAT DO I DO WITH MY STUFF?
PERSPECTIVES ON ARCHIVAL DISPERSAL
Mike Gray, moderator; Steve Smolian (appraiser), David Seubert (archivist), John Lambert (collector), John Huggard (attorney)
audio | video | video *

COUNTRY MUSIC

Kinney Rorrer
I'm the Man That Rode the Mule 'Round the World:
Charlie Poole & Tin Pan Alley
audio | video

Gary R. Boye
Out of the Country:
Doc Watson's Earliest Recordings & the Creation of a Folk Musician
audio | video | video *

Cary Moskovitz
Celebrating the Music of Papa Charlie Jackson
audio | video | video *

RADIO

Marshall Wyatt
Crazy Barn Dance & the Crazy Bands
audio | video

Joseph Gallucci
A Place Where Things Happen:
A Brief History of WBAI's Free Music Store
audio | video

Allison Schein, Tony Macaluso, Anne Wootton
Sharing Studs Terkel's Radio Archives with the World
audio | video *

AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC

Tim Brooks
Minstrelsy on Record
audio | video | slides

Bill Doggett
Emancipation Proclamation:
From Minstrel Coon Songs to Negro Spirituals
audio | video

Parker Fishel & Sophie Abramowitz
Talkin' 'Bout Mojo:
Preserving the 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival
audio | video *

ARCHIVES

Karine Bouchard
Revisiting Materiality:
Sound Recordings as Exhibition Catalogs
audio | video

Al Schlachtmeyer & Sok Min Seo
Preserving the UN's Concert Recordings Archive
audio | video

Gary Galo
The Unknown Nadia Boulanger:
Recordings from Crane School of Music Archives
audio | video *

FOLK MUSIC

Jesse Karlsberg & Nathan Rees:
Curating a Crowd-Sourced Collection:
Engaging Community at the Sacred Harp Museum
audio | video

Heather M. Darnell
How the Federal Government Transformed Folk Music
Documentation & Preservation During the Great Depression
audio | video

Kevin Nutt
Lord Remember Me: Archiving Alabama's Folk Music
audio | video

TECHNICAL

Bill Levay
Linked Jazz:
Using Linked Open Data to Map Relationships Among Musicians
audio | video

Eddie Ashworth
The Guyana National Media Assessment Project: An Overview
audio | video *

Chris Lacinak
Recent, Free, Open-Source Tools for Preservation
audio | video

Saturday, May 17, 2014

RECORDS: THE NEXT BIG COLLECTIBLE
John Tefteller
audio | video *

MUSIC IN APPALACHIA

Ted Olson
Let the Music Be Heard:
Producing Appalachian Compilations for a New Generation
audio | video

COLLECTING & ARCHIVING

Jenny Doctor
21st Century Archiving of Institutions’ Audio Treasures:
Proposing an ARSC Support Group for Institutional Repositories
audio | video

Meagan Sylvester
Fusion Music of the Caribbean:
Sonic Excursions Within Trinidad & Tobago's
Calypso & Soca Music, 1973-2013
audio | video *

Jocelyn Arem & Jessica Thompson
The Caffe Lena History Project: From Archives to Zip Files
audio | video

DISCS & CYLINDERS

David Giovannoni, Richard Martin & Meagan Hennessey
The Blue Amberol at 100
audio | video *

Eric Breitung
Cleaning Solutions for Heavily Degraded Lacquered Discs
audio | video

Bill McClung
Texas Accordion Records
video

Rainer Lotz
Nipper-Napping:
Trademark Infringements on Gramophone Needle Tins
audio | video | slides

PRESERVATION & ARCHIVING

Tre Berney & Danielle Mericle
Preserving Cornell's Indonesian Field Recordings
audio | video

Chris Holden
FRBR & Playback Musical Works
audio | video

TECHNICAL

William Vanden Dries
Directory of Recorded Sound Collections:
A Response to NRPP Recommendation 3.2
audio | video

Patrick Midtlyng
The Stream Team: A Case Study in Pursuit of Increased Access
audio | video

Morgan Oscar Morel
Columbia University Libraries:
Never METS a Metadatum They Couldn't Find a Place For
audio | video

RADIO & REPERTOIRE

Thomas Pease
Documentary Radio Programs & Archiving:
Where Do We Start?
audio | video

Joe Weed
Uncovering the Fading Traces of "Faded Love"
audio | video *

Dr. Gregg Kimball
The Music of the Tubize Royal Hawaiian Orchestra:
An American Factory Band
audio | video

Edward Berger
From Jazz to Classical & Beyond:
The Recording Career of Joe Wilder
audio | video

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