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2022 Winners: ARSC Awards for Excellence

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. The awards will be presented at a ceremony at ARSC's annual conference, which will be hosted May 17-20, 2023 in Pittsburgh, PA. Additional information about the ARSC Conference and the ARSC Awards for Excellence may be found on the association's website.

Begun in 1991, the ARSC Awards for Excellence are awarded to authors of books, articles, or recording liner notes to recognize those publishing the very best work today in recorded sound research. In giving these awards, ARSC recognizes the contributions of these individuals, aims to encourage others to emulate their high standards, and hopes to promote readership of their work. Two awards are presented annually in each category for Best History and Best Discography, and others are acknowledged with Certificates of Merit. Awards are presented to both the authors and publishers of winning publications.

The 2022 Awards for Excellence honor works published in 2021.

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[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Rock and Soul Music ]

Best History

Prince and the Parade and Sign O' The Times Era Studio Sessions: 1985 and 1986
Prince and the Parade and Sign O' The Times Era Studio Sessions: 1985 and 1986
by Duane Tudahl
(Rowman & Littlefield)

Certificate of Merit

My Melancholy Baby: The First Ballads of the Great American Songbook, 1902-1913
My Melancholy Baby: The First Ballads of the Great American Songbook, 1902-1913
by Michael G. Garber
(University Press of Mississippi)

Certificate of Merit

Cream: A People's History
Cream: A People's History
by Richard Houghton
(Spenwood Books)

Certificate of Merit

Dead Man's Curve: The Rock 'n' Roll Life of Jan Berry
Dead Man's Curve: The Rock 'n' Roll Life of Jan Berry
by Mark A. Moore
(McFarland)

Certificate of Merit

Atomic Tunes: The Cold War in American and British Popular Music
Atomic Tunes: The Cold War in American and British Popular Music
by Tim and Joanna Smolko
(Indiana University Press)

[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz ]

Best History

Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France
Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France
by Celeste Day Moore
(Duke University Press)

Certificate of Merit

The Lady Swings: Memoirs of a Jazz Drummer
The Lady Swings: Memoirs of a Jazz Drummer
by Dottie Dodgion and Wayne Enstice
(University of Illinois Press)

Certificate of Merit

Texas Jazz Singer: Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond
Texas Jazz Singer: Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond
by Kevin Mooney
(Texas A&M Press)

Certificate of Merit

Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism
Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism
by Richard Brent Turner
(NYU Press)

[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Country, Folk, Roots or World Music]

Best History

An American Singing Heritage: Songs from the British-Irish-American Oral Tradition as Recorded in the Early Twentieth Century
An American Singing Heritage: Songs from the British-Irish-American Oral Tradition as Recorded in the Early Twentieth Century
by Norm Cohen, Carson Cohen and Anne Dhu McLucas, eds.
(A-R Editions)

Certificate of Merit

Czech Songs in Texas
Czech Songs in Texas
by Frances Barton and John K. Novak; James P. Leary (forward)
(University of Oklahoma Press)

Certificate of Merit

Colm Ó Caodháin: An Irish Singer and His World
Colm Ó Caodháin: An Irish Singer and His World
by Ríonach uí Ógáin
(Cork University Press)

[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Gospel, Hip Hop, Soul, or R&B ]

Best History

Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry
Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry
by Kevin Mungons and Douglas Yeo
(University of Illinois Press)

Best Discography

Smithsonian Anthology of Hip Hop and Rap
Smithsonian Anthology of Hip Hop and Rap
by Cey Adams, editor
(Smithsonian Folkways)

Certificate of Merit

R&B in D.C. 1940-1960
R&B in D.C. 1940-1960
by Jay Bruder
(Bear Family Records)

Certificate of Merit

Peace Be Still: How James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir Created a Gospel Classic
Peace Be Still: How James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir Created a Gospel Classic
by Robert M. Marovich
(University of Illinois Press)

Certificate of Merit

Love Factory: The History of Holland Dozier Holland
Love Factory: The History of Holland Dozier Holland
by Howard Priestley
(New Haven Publishing)

[ Best Historical Research in Recorded Classical Music ]

Best History

Recording the Classical Guitar
Recording the Classical Guitar
by Mark Marrington
(Routledge)

Best Discography

Gigli: The Master Tenor
Gigli: The Master Tenor
by Colin Bain
(Barry Ashpole)

Certificate of Merit

José Serebrier: Portraits of the Maestro
José Serebrier: Portraits of the Maestro
by Michael Faure
(Amadeus Press)

Certificate of Merit

Jean Sibelius: Life, Music, Silence
Jean Sibelius: Life, Music, Silence
by Daniel M. Grimley
(Reaktion Books)

[ Best Historical Research on General Recording Topics ]

Best History

Orlando R. Marsh: Chicago’s Pioneer of Electrical Recording
Orlando R. Marsh: Chicago’s Pioneer of Electrical Recording
by Richard Raichelson
(Arcadia Records)

Best Discography


“Eritis mihi testes”: Sound Recordings of the 1938 International Eucharistic Congress/„Eritis mihi testes” Az 1938-as budapesti Nemzetközi Eucharisztikus Kongresszus hangfelvételei

by Ferenc János Szabó and Marietta B. Kaskötő, trans. Zsófia Hutai
(National Széchényi Library, Budapest)

Certificate of Merit

Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
by Daphne A. Brooks
(Belknap Press)

Certificate of Merit

Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation
Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation
by Jehnie I. Burns
(Lexington Books)

Certificate of Merit


Contributions to the History of the Record Industry Vol. 11; Papers from the Shanghai Conference 28-29, 2019

by Du Jun Min and Pekka Gronow
(Gesellschaft für Historische Tonträger)

Certificate of Merit

Inventing the Recording
Inventing the Recording: The Phonograph and National Culture in Spain, 1877-1914
by Eva Morena Rodríguez
(Oxford University Press)

[ Best Historical Research on Record Labels ]

Best History

It Ain't Retro: Daptone Records & The 21st-Century Soul Revolution
It Ain't Retro: Daptone Records & The 21st-Century Soul Revolution
by Jessica Lipsky
(Jawbone Press)

Best Discography

The Famous Charisma Discography
The Famous Charisma Discography, 2nd ed.
by Mark Jones
(self published)

Certificate of Merit

Columbia 15000-D Series Discography
Columbia 15000-D Series Discography (1924-1933): Familiar Tunes Old & New
by Cary Ginell
(self published)

Certificate of Merit

Etching the Voice: Emile Berliner and the First Commercial Gramophone Discs
Etching the Voice: Emile Berliner and the First Commercial Gramophone Discs, 1889-1895
by Stephan Puille, David Giovannoni and Richard Martin
(Archeophone)

 

For more information, please contact Roberta Freund Schwartz (University of Kansas).

Winners are chosen by a committee consisting of three elected judges representing specific fields of study, two judges-at-large, the review editor of the ARSC Journal and the President or past President of ARSC. The 2022 ARSC Awards Committee consists of the following:

Rob Bamberger (Jazz Music Judge); Dennis D. Rooney (Classical Music Judge); Matthew Barton (Popular Music Judge); Cary Ginell (Judge-At-Large); Richard Spottswood (Judge-at-Large); James Farrington (Book Review Editor, ARSC Journal); Cece Otto (ARSC President’s designee); and Roberta Freund Schwartz (Awards Committee Chair).

 

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