2016 ARSC Conference Recordings

ARSC is pleased to make sound and video recordings of presentations at ARSC's 50th Annual Conference in Bloomington, Indiana available online as a benefit to members.

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Abstracts of sessions may be found in the 2016 ARSC Conference Program.

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Thursday, May 12, 2016

THE JAZZ LEGACY OF INDIANA AVENUE
Monika Herzig, David Williams
audio | video | slides (pptx)

ARTISTS & REPERTOIRE: ACTIVISM ON RECORD

Jennie Williams
Records of Resistance:
Listening to the Anti-Vietnam War GI Movement
through the Paredon Record Label
audio | video *

Bill Doggett
Rock n Roll @ 60:
Race & Music & Message at the Dawn of the Civil Rights Movement
audio | video

Robert M. Marovich
Lift Up Your Heads:
Professor J. Wesley Jones and the Music of Racial Uplift
audio | video *

FORGOTTEN VOICES

Dennis Rooney
Forgotten Crooner: The Magic of Russ Columbo
audio | video *

Cary Ginell
Makin' a Case for Carson:
Is Carson Robison the Father of Modern Country Music?
audio | video | slides (pptx)

Flávia Camargo Toni
A Song for Lorenzo Dow Turner, from Mario
audio | video

FOLKLIFE AND ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

Douglas Dowling Peach, Nathan D. Gibson,
Alan Burdette, & Henry Glassie
Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line
audio | video *

Dave Walker
Five Decades of Folklife on Record:
Documenting and Preserving the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
audio | video| slides (pdf)

Maya Lerman
From the Field to the Public:
Preserving and Presenting World Folk Music
audio | video | slides (pptx)

ARCHIVING IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Rebecca Chandler
Exactly: A New Tool for Born-Digital Acquisitions
audio | video

Thomas Pease
Sequence and Navigation for Building Structures
and Describing the Contents of Digital Audio
audio | video

Rick Wilkerson, Larry Goshen, Heather Fox,
Jeb Banner, Kyle Barnett
Archiving from the Ground Up:
Emerging Music Archives in the Digital Age
audio | video

INTERVIEWS, ORAL HISTORIES AND COMMUNICATIONS

Maristella Feustle
History Recovered:
The Willis Conover Interviews in the UNT Music Library
audio | video

Nora Egloff
Echoes in the Concert Hall:
Digital Preservation of the Leonard Bernstein Oral History Collection
audio | video

Nolan Porterfield
Early Home Recorders:
The Role of Tape Respondents International
audio | video

CYLINDER RESEARCH

Henry Sapoznik
In the Beginning...:
The 1901 Yiddish Lambert Cylinders
and the First Sounds of Yiddish Popular Music
audio | video

Richard Martin, Meagan Hennessey, Michael Devecka
Audio Detectives at Ocean Grove:
Identifying Field Recordings from the 1897 Camp Meeting
audio | video

Brad McCoy, Eric Monroe
Audio Cylinders:
An Update on Science Research and Preservation Work
at the Library of Congress
audio | video | Monroe slides (pdf)

Friday, May 13, 2016

ARSC AT 50: A LOOK AT ITS PAST AND ITS FUTURE
Tim Brooks (moderator), Leah Biel, Michael Biel, Paul Jackson, Steve Smolian
audio | slides (pdf) | video *

IRENE AND OTHER DIGITIZATION ISSUES

George Blood
IRENE: Messiah or False Prophet
audio | video

Peter Kuhnle
Digital De-emphasis Filters in Gramophone Recording Digitization
audio | video

John H. Bondurant
Preserving the Preservation:
The William A. Owens Folksong Collection at Texas A&M University
audio | video | slides (pdf)

Q&A
audio

INDIANA TALENT

Aaron Cohen
Baby Huey's Journey
audio | video *

Diane Napert
Indiana Native Cole Porter: The Yale Connection
audio | video

David Heighway, Bob Foster
Are You Ready, Hezzie?
The Hoosier Hot Shots and Their Influence
audio | video

RECORD LABELS & RESEARCH

David N. Lewis
Have You Forgotten God?
Homer Rodeheaver's Special Label and Other Extracurricular Activities
audio | video

John Broven, Bill Greensmith
The Blues Unlimited Legacy
audio | video

Daniel Blazek
Open the Door Richard Pryor:
Rating Pryor's Laff Recordings
audio | video *

REFLECTING ON RECORDS

Richard Green
20 Years (more or less) of the Virtual Gramophone
audio | video

Filip Šír
Checking Out Czech Records:
A Model Gateway for Sound Documents or Just a Portal?
audio | video | slides (zip)

Kurt Nauck, Mark Atnip
The Cream Rises to the Top! -
Treasures from 30 Years in the Vintage Record Business
audio | video *

Q&A
audio

PLAYBACK AND RESTORATION

Richard L. Hess
Azimuth Investigations
audio | video | slides (pdf)

Andreas K. Meyer
Vladimir Horowitz:
The Unreleased Live Recordings, 1966-1983
audio | video

Mark Cantor
Jazz and Blues on Film:
Sound Restoration from a Smaller Archive
audio | video

LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN RECORDED SOUND

Ed Berger
Studio Editing:
Moral Dilemmas and Implications for Discographers
audio | video

Steve Smolian
Victor Herbert, the Law, and the Evolution of the Talking Machine Industry
audio | video

Mathew Swiatlowski
False Sounds, Fraudulent Materiality:
Late-Twentieth Century Listening Practices
and the Curious Case of Tax Scam Record Labels
audio | video

Jenna Makowski
Ethnographic Sound Archives Online:
A Historic Primary Source Digitization Initiative
audio | video

Saturday, May 14, 2016

LABEL HISTORIES

David N. Lewis
The King of Them All:
The Legacy of Cincinnati's King Records 1943-1971
audio | video *

Charlie Dahan
The Gennetts on Record
audio | video * | slides (zip)

Jerry McBride
Advance Recordings:
Independent Label of the Avant Garde
audio | video * | slides (pptx)

RECORDED SOUND HISTORY REVISITED

Matthew Barton
The First History of Rock and Roll:
Listening to the Past on Top 40 Radio in 1969
audio | video

Danielle Fosler-Lussier
America's Record Collection:
The United States Information Agency and American Music Abroad
audio | video

Robert O'Brien
Shakespeare's Sonnets with Added Music
audio | video

Q&A
audio

MUSICOLOGY AND PEDAGOGY

Terri Brinegar
Whoopin', Shoutin', and Singin':
The African American Sermonette at the Crossroads
of Class and Race in the 1920s
audio | video

Roberta Freund Schwartz
Mama Do That Rag: the Rag in the Early Recorded Blues
audio | video| slides (pptx)

John Stropes, Benjamin Kammin, Josh Lane
The Music of Leo Kottke:
Mining the Archives to Develop Pedagogical Materials
audio | video

LARGE SCALE MEDIA DIGITIZATION PART 1

Evelyn Frangakis
Planning for Large-Scale Media Digitization
audio | video *

Mike Casey, Andrew DaPuzzo
Media Preservation at Scale:
The Indiana University Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative
video

Chris Lacinak
Making It Happen:
Planning, Funding and Implementing Large-Scale Digitization Initiatives
audio | video

Q&A
audio

LARGE SCALE MEDIA DIGITIZATION PART 2

Kevin Bradley, Tom de Smet
Completing Large-Scale Digitization Projects
audio | video (de Smet) | video (Bradley)
slides (de Smet)

Will Prentice, Brecht Declercq
National Collaborative Approaches to Large-Scale Media Digitization
audio | video (Prentice)| video (Declercq)

COLLABORATIVE INITIATIVES

Peter Laurence, Filip Šír
Creating an International Bibliography of Discographies:
A Worldwide Collaborative Project Initiated by the IASA Discography Committee
audio | video | slides (pdf)

Josh Shepperd, Amanda Keeler, William Vanden Dries
Progress of the Radio Preservation Task Force of the Library of Congress in 2015
audio | video * | slides (pptx)

Lisa Lobdell, Phillip Ponella
You Don't Have to Kiss Me Goodnight:
The Pros and Cons of Collaboration Among Sound Archives
audio | video

Q&A
audio

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