ARSC Awards for
Excellence: 2005 Winners
Best Research in Recorded Blues
Moanin’ At Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin’ Wolf by
James Segrest and Mark Hoffman (Pantheon)
Certificate of Merit
Robert Johnson: Mythmaking and Contemporary
American Culture
by Patricia R. Schroeder (University of Illinois Press)
Best Research in Recorded Classical Music
Best Discography
Leroy Anderson: A Bio-Bibliography by Burgess
Speed (Praeger)
Best History
Performing Music in the Age of Recording by
Robert Philip (Yale University Press)
Best Research in Recorded Folk or Country Music
Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942 by
Tony Russell (Oxford University Press)
Best Research in Recorded World Music
Git Zaman Gel Zaman by Cernal Unlu (Fonograf Gramofon
Tab Plak)
Certificate of Merit
Albanian Urban Lyric Song in the 1930s by
Eno Koco (Scarecrow Press)
Best Research in General History of Recorded Sound
Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry
1890-1919 by Tim Brooks (University of Illinois Press)
Certificate of Merit
Capturing
Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music by
Mark Katz (University of California Press)
Best Research in Recorded Jazz
Albert Ayler: Holy Ghost by Ben Young, ed. (Revenant Records)
Certificates of Merit
Tom Talbert: His Life and Times by
Bruce Talbot (Scarecrow Press)
Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington by
Nadine Cohodas (Pantheon)
The Complete Columbia Recordings
of Woody Herman, 1945-1947 by Loren Schoenberg (Mosaic
Records)
Best Research in Record Labels
Discography of OKeh Records, 1918-1934 by Ross
Laird and Brian Rust. (Praeger)
Certificates of Merit
Fonotipia Recordings: A Centennial
Survey by Michael E.
Henstock (pub. by author)
Syrena Record: Poland’s First Recording Company, 1904-1939 by Tomasz Lerski (Editions Karin)
Victor Red Seal Discography: Vol. I: Single-Sided Series
(1903-1925) by John R. Bolig (Mainspring Press)
Best Research in Recorded Popular Music
That Moaning Saxophone: The Six Brown Brothers and the
Dawning of a Musical Craze by Bruce Vermazen (Oxford University
Press)
Best Research in Recorded Rhythm & Blues, Soul, or Gospel Music
People Get Ready!: A New History of Black Gospel Music by
Robert Darden (Continuum Books)
Certificate of Merit
House On Fire: The Rise and Fall of
Philadelphia Soul by
John A. Jackson (Oxford University Press)
Best Research in Recorded Rock or Rap Music
Freddy Fresh Presents the Rap Records by Freddy Fresh (Nerby
Publishing)
Certificate of Merit
Nirvana: The Complete Recording Sessions by
Rob Jovanovic (Firefly) ter Skelter)
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