ARSC Journal

The ARSC Journal (ISSN 0004-5438) is a semi-annual, peer reviewed publication that serves to document the history of sound recording and includes original articles on many aspects of research and preservation: biography; cataloging; copyright law; current research; discography; technical aspects of sound restoration, etc.. Selected ARSC conference papers are a regular feature. The journal also includes book and sound recording reviews, and publishes a running bibliography of articles appearing in other specialist publications and of related interest.

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Special Issue in Celebration of Public Domain

Vol. 52:3 & CD ($15 post paid in U.S.) (Winter 2021)

   JOURNAL CONTENTS (ARSC website login required)

Cover, Masthead, Table of Contents

Introduction to the Special Issue
by Matthew Barton

Notes on the CD
by Various Writers

A Bus Ride in Cleveland: ARSC's Twenty-Year Fight for Copyright Reform
by Tim Brooks

Copyright and Fair Use: On Rights Management in Anthropological and Linguistic Sound Collections
by Hugh J. Paterson III

The Acoustic Recording Era in Living Color!
Back Cover

   PRE-1923 COMPACT DISC (ARSC 001) (Aviary site login required)
   Contact ARSC Aviary Site Editor to request a login. To see track notes, see the Supplemental Files tab for each track.

1. Actors' Equity – An All-Star Comedy

2. Eubie Blake – Sounds of Africa

3. Arturo Toscanini conducting La Scala Orchestra – Il Segreto di Susanna, overture (Secret of Suzanne, overture)

4. Wolkowski Balalaika Orchestra – Temptation Rag

5. Art Hickman's New York London 5 – When My Baby Smiles at Me

6. The Four Sicilians (I Quattro Siciliani) – Camporale Bello

7. Blanche Marchesi – Bist De Bei Mir, geh mit Freuden

8. Orquesta Felipe Valdes – La Carne Liquida

9. Olly Oakley – Wallaby Polka

10. La Nina De Los Peines – Sequidilla Gitanas

11. Talim Hussain – Bagesari

12. Charles D'Almaine – Donkey and Driver

13. A.H. Knoll & Marie McNeil – McNeil's Schottische

14. Regina Music Box Disc – Dora Dean Song

15. Eduard Jedlička – Možná to na světě věc (That's the Way of the World)

16. Takis Zakas – Horos Nifiatikos

17. W.O. Beckenbaugh – Sale of Toys, Dolls, and so forth on Christmas Eve Night

18. Song Man Gap – Sipjang-ga ("The Song of Ten Lashes") from Chunhyang-ga

19. Orchestra Albaneza – Bosiok (Borzilok)

20. Grupo Chiquinha Gonzaga – Corta Jaca

21. Samuel Siegel – Boston Ideal, March

22. Dabney's Band – Slidin' Sid

23. Lucille Hegamin and her Blue Flame Syncopators – I Like You Because You Have Such Loving Ways

24. Mathild De Bartoky – Húzd rá cigány (Play, Gypsy)/Edes Anyam (My Sweet Mother)

25. Billy Sunday Chorus (New York Tabernacle) Homer Rodeheaver, director – Sail On

26. Jazz Band U.S.A. Ambulance Service with Italian Army – Hokum

27. Abrego & Picazo – Adios, Adios

   BONUS TRACK AND NOTES (not included in journal or compact disc) (no login required)

28. Arthur Gilbert – We Close at 2 on Thursday

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Editorial Advisory Board

Christopher C. King, Editor, ARSC Journal (Chair)
Heliana Farah, Assistant Editor
Tim Brooks, Copyright & Fair Use/Current Bibliography
Jim Farrington, Book Reviews Editor
Gary A. Galo, Contributing Editor
Lars Meyer, Sound Recording Reviews Editor
Ex Officio: Matthew Barton, Chair, Publications
Ex Officio: Rebecca Chandler, ARSC President