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arsclist 2002 ARSC Awards
2002 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research
Santa Barbara, California, May 13, 2002 -- The Association for Recorded
Sound Collections is pleased to announce the winners of the 2002 ARSC Awards
for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, awarded this year
during its annual conference in Santa Barbara, California.
Begun in 1991, the awards are given 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 and aims to encourage others to emulate
their high standards and to promote readership of their work. The 2002 ARSC
Awards honor books published during 2001.
Best Research in Recorded General Popular Music
Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams-the Early Years, 1903-1940, by Gary
Giddins (Little, Brown & Company)
Best Research in Recorded Folk or Ethnic Music
Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in Chinese Jazz Age, by
Andrew F. Jones (Duke University Press)
Best Research in Recorded Country Music
Discography of Western Swing and Hot String Bands, 1928-1942, by Cary Ginell
and Kevin Coffey (Greenwood Press)
Best Research in Recorded Classical Music
Best Discography. Witold Lutoslawski: A Bio-Bibliography, by Stanislaw
Bedkowski and Stinislaw Hrabia (Greenwood Press)
Best History. Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations, by Bruno
Monsaingeon; translated by Stewart Spencer (Princeton University Press)
Certificate of Merit. Pietro Mascagni: A Bio-Bibliography, by Roger Flury
(Greenwood Press)
Best Research in Recorded Rock, Rhythm & Blues, or Soul
Orbison, by Colin Escott; discography by Richard Weize (notes to Bear Family
CD set)
Best Research in Recorded Jazz
Best History. The Miller Companion to Jazz in Canada: and Canadians in
Jazz, by Mark Miller (Mercury Press)
Best Discography. Brilliant Corners: A Bio-Discography of Thelonious Monk,
compiled by Chris Sheridan (Greenwood Press)
Certificate of Merit. Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit,
1920-1960, by Lars Bjorn with Jim Gallert (University of Michigan Press)
Best Research in Recorded Blues
Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton, by David
Evans, John Fahey, Edward Komara, and Dick Spottswood (notes to Revenant CD
set)
Best General Research in Recorded Sound
Beyond Recall: A Record of Jewish Musical Life in Nazi Berlin, 1933-1938, by
Rainer E. Lotz, Horst J. P. Bergmeier, and Ejal Jakob Eisler (notes to Bear
Family CD set)
Certificate of Merit. Aural History: Essays on Recorded Sound, ed. by Andy
Linehan (British Library, National Sound Archives)
Best Research in Record Labels or Manufacturers
Brunswick Records: A Discography of Recordings, 1916-1931 [in 4 volumes], by
Ross Laird (Greenwood Press)
Certificate of Merit. Okeh Race Records: The 8000 "Race" Series, by Laurie
Wright (Self-published)
Best Research in the Preservation or Reproduction of Recorded Sound
Broadcast Transcription Discs, by James R. Powell, Jr. (Gramophone
Adventures)
Phonographs With Flair: A Century of Style in Sound Reproduction, by Timothy
C. Fabrizio and George F. Paul (Schiffer Publishing Ltd.)
Lifetime Achievement Award given to Pekka Gronow
Pekka Gronow, the manager of the radio archives of the Finnish Broadcasting
Company and an Adjunct Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of
Helsinki, has been researching records and writing about them for almost 40
years. Dr. Gronow has published several books on music and recordings in
Finnish, English, and other languages, including An International History of
the Recording Industry (with Ilpo Saunio, 1998); produced numerous reissues
of historical Finnish recordings; and has contributed to the ARSC Journal,
IASA Journal, Ethnomusicology, JEMF Quarterly, and The New Grove Dictionary
of Jazz, among others. One of the founders of Suomen Äänitearkisto, the
Finnish Institute of Recorded Sound, he has also supervised the publication
of the 25-volume Catalogue of Finnish Recordings. Overall, Dr. Gronow's
publications have been instrumental in documenting the history of
Scandinavian recordings.
About ARSC
Founded in 1966, the Association for Recorded Sound Collections
(http://www.arsc-audio.org) is a non-profit organization dedicated to
research, study, publication, and information exchange surrounding all
aspects of recordings and recorded sound. With members in twenty-three
countries, the organization is comprehensive in scope and reflects the
interests and concerns of its members, including historians, collectors,
dealers, archivists, discographers, and recording engineers. Through its
publications and meetings, ARSC provides a forum for the development and
dissemination of information in all fields and periods of recording and in
all sound media. In addition, ARSC works to encourage the preservation of
historical recordings, to promote the exchange of research and information
about them, and to foster an increased awareness of the importance of
recorded sound as part of any cultural heritage.
ARSC Awards 2003
Nominations are currently open for the 2003 ARSC Awards for Excellence in
Historical Recorded Sound Research. Eligible publications include any
printed work-book, monograph, article, liner notes-first published during
2002. The work may be on any subject related to recorded sound including
histories, discographies, technology (such as modern techniques for the
preservation or reproduction of older recordings), and recording artist
biographies in any field of music or genre (classical, popular, rock, jazz,
country, folk, spoken word, labels, phonographs, etc.). The work should
deal primarily with historical periods, defined as at least ten years prior
to publication (e.g., pre-1991), with the exception of works related to
preservation and technology. In addition, a Lifetime Achievement Award will
be presented to an individual in recognition of his or her life's work in
published recorded sound research. The deadline for nominations is January
31, 2003. The Awards Committee especially welcomes information concerning
eligible foreign and small press publications that might otherwise be
overlooked. Publishers should submit one copy of each eligible publication;
others may forward the author, title, publisher, and publisher's address for
each nominee to:
Vincent Pelote
ARSC Awards Co-Chair
Institute of Jazz Studies
Rutgers State University of NJ
Newark, NJ 07102
pelote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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