[78-L] ARSC Research Grants 2013: Recipients

[Bill Klinger]

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

--- ARSC RESEARCH GRANTS PROGRAM: 2013 RECIPIENTS ---

The ARSC Grants Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2013
Research Grants.

The ARSC Research Grants Program supports scholarship and publication in the
fields of sound recording research and audio preservation. (This program is
separate from the ARSC Preservation Grants Program, which encourages and
supports the preservation of historically significant sound recordings of
Western Art Music.) Project categories eligible for consideration include:
discography, bibliography, historical studies of the sound recording
industry and its products, and any other subject likely to increase the
public's understanding and appreciation of the lasting importance of
recorded sound.

--- Evelyn Osborne, Ph.D. (Ethnomusicology), Memorial University of
Newfoundland ---

$1000 for travel to New York University to study the recordings of the
McNulty Family and their influence on Newfoundland traditional music.

--- Parker Fishel, Master's student at the University of Texas School of
Information ---

$700 to support travel to Massachusetts and Connecticut to pursue his
project "Georgia Griot: A Bio-Discography of Free Jazz Saxophonist Marion
Brown."

--- Christa Anne Bentley, Ph.D. candidate at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill ---

$300 to support her travel to conduct research in the archives of A&M
Records at UCLA, for a dissertation on the role of the recording industry in
the singer-songwriter movement.

Applications for the next grant cycle must be received by February 28, 2014.

For more information, visit:
http://www.arsc-audio.org/committees/researchgrants.html

Questions about the Research Grants Program should be directed to Grants
Committee Chair Suzanne Flandreau:
arscgrants at arsc-audio.org

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings -- in all genres
of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. ARSC is unique in
bringing together private individuals and institutional professionals --
everyone with a serious interest in recorded sound.