[78-L] ARSC Awards 2011: Finalists

[Bill Klinger]

The Outreach Committee of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections
(ARSC) posts the following message.

-- 2011 ARSC AWARDS FINALISTS --

ARSC is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2011 ARSC Awards for
Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Winners will be announced
in September 2011, and the awards presented at a ceremony in May 2012,
during ARSC's annual conference. Additional information about the annual
conference and the ARSC Awards for Excellence can be found at
www.arsc-audio.org.

Begun in 1991, the awards are presented to authors and publishers of books,
articles, or recording liner notes to recognize outstanding published
research in the field of recorded sound. In giving these awards, ARSC
recognizes outstanding contributions, encourages high standards, and
promotes awareness of superior works. Two awards are presented annually in
each category, for best history and best discography. Certificates of Merit
are presented to runners-up of exceptionally high quality.

Winners are chosen by the ARSC Awards Committee: five elected judges
representing specific fields of study, the Book Review Editor of the ARSC
Journal, and the ARSC President and Past President. The members of the ARSC
Awards Committee are:

Cary Ginell (Judge-at-Large)
Dan Morgenstern (Jazz Music Judge)
Dennis Rooney (Classical Music Judge)
William L. Schurk (Popular Music Judge)
Richard Spottswood (Judge-at-Large)
James Farrington (Book Review Editor, ARSC Journal)
Vincent Pelote (ARSC President)
David Seubert (ARSC Past President)
Brenda Nelson-Strauss (Ex-Officio)
David Lewis (Awards Committee Co-Chair)
Roberta Freund Schwartz (Awards Committee Co-Chair)

The following works, published in 2010, have been selected as finalists:

BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED ROCK and POP MUSIC

Roberto Avant-Mier. Rock the Nation: Latin/o Identities and the Latin Rock
Diaspora (Continuum Press)

Bar Biszick-Lockwood. Restless Giant: The Life and Times of Jean Aberback
and Hill and Range Songs (University of Illinois Press)

Will Friedwald. A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers
(Pantheon Books)

Sheree Homer. Catch that Rockabilly Fever: Personal Stories of Life on the
Road and in the Studio (McFarland Publishing)

George Plasketes, ed. Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music (Ashgate
Publishing)
Will Romano. Mountains Come Out of the Sky: An Illustrated History of Prog
Rock (Backbeat Books)

Albin J. Zak. I Don't Sound Like Nobody: Remaking Music in 1950s America
(University of Michigan Press)

BEST HISTORICAL RESEARCH in BLUES, GOSPEL, HIP-HOP, or R&B

Alan Govenar. Lightnin' Hopkins: His Life and Blues (A Capella Press)

Macel Ely. Ain't No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely
(Dust-to-Digital)

Roger House. Blue Smoke: The Recorded Journey of Big Bill Broonzy (Louisiana
State University Press)

Peter C. Muir. Long Lost Blues (University of Illinois Press)

Doug Seroff. There Breathed a Hope: The Legacy of John Work II and His Fisk
Jubilee Quartet (Archeophone)

Mary Lou Sullivan and Johnny Winter. Raisin' Cain: The Wild and Raucous
Story of Johnny Winter (Backbeat Books)

BEST RESEARCH in RECORD LABELS

Andy Bradley and Charles Roger Wood. House of Hits: The Story of Houston's
Gold Star/Sugar Hill Recording Studios (University of Texas Press)

Rémy Lewis, Thierry Soveaux, Olivier Borouchowitch, and Yannick Coupannec.
Deutsche Grammophon: State of the Art: Celebrating Over a Century of Musical
Experience (Rizzoli)

Roben Jones. Memphis Boys: The Story of American Studios (University Press
of Mississippi)

Chris Salewicz and Suzette Newman. The Story of Island Records: Keep on
Running (Universe)

BEST HISTORICAL RESEARCH in RECORDED FOLK, ETHNIC, or COUNTRY MUSIC

Ray Allen. Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk
Music Revival (University of Illinois Press)

Heather Augustyn. Ska: An Oral History (McFarland Publishing)

Alan Bern, Heiko Lehmann, and Bertram Nickolay. Jiddische Musik (Bear Family
Records)

Kevin Coffey, Cary Ginell, Jeremy Wakefield, and David Sager. Bob Dunn:
Master of the Electric Steel Guitar (1935-1950) (Origin Jazz Library)

Joe Conzo Sr. and David A. Perez. Mambo Diablo: My Journey with Tito Puente
(AuthorHouse)

David Dunaway and Molly Beer. Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk
Music Revivals (Oxford University Press)
Vikram Sampath. My Name is Gauhar Jaan! The Life and Times of a Musician
(Rupa Publications)

Richard Spottswood and Stephen Wade. Banjo on the Mountain: Wade Mainer's
First Hundred Years (University Press of Mississippi)

BEST HISTORICAL RESEARCH in RECORDED JAZZ

Mark Berresford. That's Got 'Em! The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman
(University Press of Mississippi)

Cary Ginell. Hot Jazz for Sale: Hollywood's Jazz Man Record Shop (Lulu.com)

David Jessup. Benny Goodman: A Supplemental Discography (Scarecrow Press)

Barry Martyn and Nick Gagliano. The Fabulous George Lewis Band (Burgundy
Street Press)

David Sager. Cabaret Echoes: New Orleans Jazzers at Work, 1918-1927 (Off the
Record)

Alyn Shipton. Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway (Oxford University Press)

Randy Weston. African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston (Duke
University Press)

BEST HISTORICAL RESEARCH in CLASSICAL MUSIC

Péter Fülöp. Mahler Discography (Doremi)

Terry King. Gregor Piatigorsky: The Life and Career of the Virtuoso Cellist
(McFarland Publishing)

Tully Potter. Adolph Busch: The Life of an Honest Musician (Toccatta Press)

BEST HISTORICAL RESEARCH on GENERAL RECORDING TOPICS

Arved Mark Ashby. Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction (University of
California Press)

Amanda Bayley. Recorded Music: Performance, Culture, and Technology
(Cambridge University Press)

Pekka Gronow and Christiane Hofer. The Lindström Project: Contributions to
the History of the Record Industry / Beiträge zur Geschichte der
Schallplattenindustrie, Vol. 2 (Gesellshaft für Historische Tonträger)

Jay Hodgson. Understanding Records: A Field Guide to Recording Practice
(Continuum)

Gustavus Stadler. The Politics of Recorded Sound (Duke University Press)