[78-L] ARSC Awards 2011: Finalists

[Michael Biel]

On 4/27/2011 10:46 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> Nice to see quite a few people I know on these lists! And competing in the same
> categories, too (not just Ginell and Jessup).
>
> dl
>

Did I miss something or did Sherman's Collectors Guide to Victor Records 
not make the cut?

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

> On 4/27/2011 9:49 PM, Bill Klinger wrote:
>> 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)
>>
>>