2017 ARSC Conference Recordings

THE TEXAS SCENE

Nathan Gibson
The Women of Starday: All-Girl Bands, Women's Liberation,
and the Women Behind Country Music's Largest Independent Record Label
audio | video *

Maristella Feustle, Sara Outhier, David Huff
From 'Fessor to Fry St.:
Documenting the Recorded History of the Denton, Texas Music Scene
audio | video *

Bill McClung
Pirating, Benzedrine, and Porn:
The Swing Record Manufacturing Company of Paris, Texas
audio | video *

BASEBALL, BORDER RADIO, AND POLITICS

Mark Atnip
Rarities and Obscurities from the Field
of 78rpm Baseball Recordings
audio | video

Gene Fowler, Bill Crawford
Border Radio -- Media Mavericks on the Silvery Rio Grande
audio | video

ON RECORDS MADE... AND NOT MADE?

Mark Obert-Thorn
Unraveling the Mystery of Paderewski's Victor Discography
audio | video | slides

Jeffery S. McMillan
Two Minutes of Perfection:
The National Phonograph Company's First Grand Opera Series
and Recording the Stars of the Metropolitan Opera
audio | video

David N. "Uncle Dave" Lewis
When the Work's All Done This Fall:
A Preliminary Pre-history of Western Ballads on Records
audio | video

PRESERVING GROOVED DISCS

Stefano S. Cavaglieri
Expert Transfer Techniques:
A Special Focus on Mechanical Discs
audio | video

Brewster Kahle, B George, George Blood, Jessica Thompson
Mass Digitization of 78rpm Records
with the Internet Archive
audio | video *

DIGITIZATION WORKFLOWS

Rebecca Holte
Laying Tracks as the Train Approaches
audio | video

Mike Casey
Managing Media Digitization Workflows
audio | video

Andrew Dapuzzo, Patrick Feaster
Feeding the Beast: Preparing Recordings
for Large-Scale Digitization
audio | video | slides

NATIONAL RECORDING HISTORIES

Sunny Mathew Kunnelpurayidom
Saving for Posterity: The Story of a Rural Gramophone Museum
and Recordings Archive in Kerala, India
audio | video

Shuresh Chandvankar
Twenty-five years of 'Collecting the Collectors'
audio | video

Filip Šír
Recorded Sound in Czech Lands, 1900-1946
audio | video *

TEXAS PERSONALITIES

Allison McGourty, John Tefteller
Talk about American Epic
audio | video

Hank Harrison
The Mysterious Charles Kama
audio | video

Donna S. Kline
Olga Samaroff: Recording Pioneer
audio | video

Q&A
audio

LABELS AND RECORD MAKERS

Mathew Swiatlowski
200 Sides for 200 Years:
New World Records' Recorded Anthology of American Music
and the U. S. Bicentennial
audio | video

Charles Sykes
The Black Forum Label: Motown Joins The Revolution
audio | video *

Roberta Freund Schwartz
The Paradox of Papa Charlie Jackson:
A Re-Evaluation of an Enigmatic Blues Man
audio | video


RELIGION ON RECORD

Daniel Blazek
Going Rogue: The Cost of Initiative
and Crossing the Line for the Greater Good
audio | video

Robert F. Darden, Darryl Stuhr, Eric Ames, Stephen Bolech
The Black Gospel Music Restoration Project
audio | video *

Terri Brinegar
The Negro Spiritual and the Recorded Sermon
as Resistance to Uplift Theories of the 1920s-1930s
audio | video

A SURVEY OF SURVEYS

Patrick J. Midtlyng
All the Cool Archives Are Doing It!:
Surveying the Belfer Audio Archive
audio | video

Amy E. Armstrong, Lauren Walker
To Plan or to Implement? That is the Question!
audio | video | slides

COLLECTORS, COLLECTIONS AND METADATA

Caitlin Hunter, Nancy Lorimer
Modeling Metadata for Sound Archives:
Extending BIBFRAME for Archival Sound Resources
audio | video

Allison McClanahan, Jeannine Roe
Putting the Data Back in Metadata:
Using Collector and Donor Knowledge to Keep Materials Safe
audio | video | slides

Jesse P. Karlsberg, Nathan K. Rees,
Mark T. Godfrey, Robert A. W. Dunn
"In Sweetest Union Join": Recovering, Identifying,
and Sharing Historical Sacred Harp Recordings
in Private Collections
audio | video

AUDIO ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

Gary Galo
Digital Phase Correctors and Sterephonic Recordings:
To Phase Correct or Not to Phase Correct: That is the Question!
audio | video

Dan Figurelli, Melissa Widzinski, Jonathan Richardson
Where the Wild Things Are:
Audio Oddities at Indiana University
audio | video

Will Prentice
Retaining Skills in Sound Archives
audio | video

RADIO PRESERVATION

John Tefteller
The Marx Brothers on Radio in the 1930's:
Finding the Long-Lost Recordings
audio | video

John H. Bondurant, Greg Bailey
"Let's Get Acquainted, Folks!":
Texas A&M Forest Service Radio Broadcasts Collection, 1947-1959
audio | video

Ernesto Aguilar, Brandon Burke, Karen Cariani,
Allison Schein, Shawn VanCour
Saving Radio History:
Challenges and Opportunities in Radio Preservation
audio | video

CONTRACTS AND COPYRIGHT

Steve Smolian
How Victor Herbert's Recording Career
Was Affected by His Edison Contract
and Actions of Victor's Executive Committee
and How Our Understanding of the History of Recording
is Expanded by this Fresh Look and New Data
audio | video

Tim Brooks
How to Deal with Copyright
in the Age of Digital Scholarship
audio | video * | slides

Bruce Epperson
From the Statute of Anne to Z. Z. Top:
The Strange Netherworld of Pre-1972 Sound Recordings,
How it Came About, and Why it Will Never Go Away
audio | video

Q&A
audio

PHILOSOPHY AND SOUND

Marcos Sueiro Bal
Of Stylus Sizes, Socrates, and Baby Seals:
Perspectives on Digitization
audio | video

Jennifer Ballow
Preserving and Renewing the Recorded Legacy of Irv Teibel
audio | video | slides

Steve Smolian
The Records Victor Herbert Made and Made and Made
audio | video

JAZZ AND POP HISTORY

Sofia Becerra-Licha
The Berklee Oral History Project
audio | video

Robb Gilbert and Jason Nisenson
Stompin' Through the EMI Music Canada Archives
audio | video

Matthew Barton
The ABC's of ABBA
audio | video

COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS

Todd Harvey
A New Look at the Library of
Congress / Fisk University 1941-1942 Collection
audio | video *

Maya Lerman
Preserving at Scale:
Exploring Efficient Audio Preservation Workflows
in Preserving the Lomax Collection Open Reel Tapes
audio | video

Brandon Burke
The Moon is Number 18:
Utilizing Freeware Technologies to Facilitate Remote
Description of Non-English Broadcast Sound Recordings
audio | video

BARN DANCES AND FIDDLE TUNES

Greg Reish and Martin Fisher
Preserving the Music of Ed Haley
audio | video

Curtis Peoples
Fiddle Music from the Texas Panhandle
audio | video

Robert M. Marovich
Shelby Jean Davis: From Barn Dance to Ballroom
audio | video