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2000 Finalists (ARSC Awards for Excellence)

Best Research in Recorded General Popular Music

Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording, by Charles L. Granata (A Capella Books)

Certificate of Merit
Marigold: The Music of Billy Mayerl
, by Peter Dickinson (Oxford University Press)

Best Research in Recorded Classical Music

More EJS: A Discography of the Edward J. Smith Recordings, by William Shaman and William J. Collins (Greenwood Press)

Best Research in Recorded Rock, Rhythm & Blues, or Soul

Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley, by Peter Guralnick (Little Brown)

Certificate of Merit
The Great Alternative Rock and Indie Discography, by Martin Strong (Canongate Press)

Best Research in Recorded Jazz, Blues, or Gospel (tie)

Groovin' High: the Life of Dizzy Gillespie, by Alyn Shipton (Oxford University Press)

Jimmy Dorsey: A Study in Contrasts, by Robert L. Stockdale (Scarecrow Press)

Best Research in Recorded Blues

A Blues Life, by Henry Townsend as told to Bill Greensmith (University of Illinois Press)

Best Research in Recorded Folk and Ethnic Music

Klezmer: Jewish Music from the Old World to the New World, by Henry Sapoznik (Schirmer)

Best Research in the General History of Recorded Sound

A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography, by Erika Brady (University Press of Mississippi)

Best Research in Record Labels or Manufacturers

The Columbia Master Book Discography (4 vols.), by Tim Brooks and Brian Rust (Greenwood Press)

Certificate of Merit
Little Wonders Records: A History and Discography
, ed. by Tim Brooks (New Amberola)

Best Research in Phonographs

Antique Phonograph Gadgets, Gizmos, and Gimmicks, by Timothy Fabrizio and George Paul (Schiffer Publishing Ltd.)

 

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