The following message has been posted by the Outreach Committee of the
Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC).
-- 2006 ARSC AWARDS FINALISTS --
ARSC is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2006 ARSC Awards for
Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Winners will be announced
in October. Awards will be presented at a ceremony in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
on May 5, 2007, during ARSC's annual conference.
Begun in 1991, the awards are presented to authors and publishers of books,
articles, liner notes, and monographs, 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. A maximum of two awards is presented
annually in each category, for best history [H] and best discography [D].
Winners are chosen by the ARSC Awards Committee: five elected judges
representing specific fields of study, the ARSC President, and the Book
Review Editor of the ARSC Journal. The members of the 2006 ARSC Awards
Committee are:
Roberta Freund-Schwartz (Awards Committee Co-Chair)
Robert Iannapollo (Awards Committee Co-Chair)
Brenda Nelson-Strauss (now ARSC Past-President)
James Farrington (Book Review Editor, ARSC Journal)
David Hamilton (Classical Music Judge)
Kip Lornell (Judge-At-Large)
Dan Morgenstern (Jazz Music Judge)
William L. Schurk (Popular Music Judge)
Richard Spottswood (Judge-at-Large)
The following works, published in 2005, have been nominated:
BLUES / RHYTHM & BLUES / SOUL
Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay, by Louis
Cantor (University of Illinois). [H]
Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke, by Peter Guralnick (Little Brown).
[H]
A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sing Them, by Buzzy
Jackson (W. W. Norton). [H]
Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress
Coahoma County Folklore Study, by John W. Work, Lewis Wade Jones, Samuel
Adams; Robert Gordon and Bruce Nemerov, editors (Vanderbilt). [H]
CLASSICAL
Michael Rabin: America's Virtuoso Violinist, by Anthony Feinstein (Amadeus).
[H]
Rachmaninoff: Life, Works, Recordings, by Max Harrison (Continuum). [H]
While Spring and Summer Sang: Thomas Beecham and the Music of Frederick
Delius, by Lyndon Jenkins (Ashgate). [H]
Yevgeny Mravinsky: The Noble Conductor, by Gregor Tassie (Scarecrow Press).
[H]
Prince of Virtuosos: A Life of Walter Rummel, American Pianist, by Charles
Timbrell (Scarecrow Press). [H]
COUNTRY
Bob Wills: Faded Love, 1947-1973, by Rich Kienzle (Bear Family). [H]
The Rose and the Briar: Death, Love, and Liberty in the American Ballad, by
Sean Wilentz and Greil Marcus, editors (W. W. Norton). [H]
King of the Cowboys, Queen of the West: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, by Ray
White (University of Wisconsin). [H]
Country Music Goes to War, by Charles K. Wolfe (University of Kentucky). [H]
FOLK / ETHNIC / WORLD
America Over the Water, by Shirley Collins (SAF). [H]
Bob Marley and the Wailers: The Definitive Discography, by Roger Steffens
and Leroy Jodie Pierson (Rounder). [D]
Electric Folk: The Changing Face of English Traditional Music, by Britta
Sweers (Oxford). [H]
The Mayor of Macdougal Street: A Memoir, by Dave Van Ronk and Elijah Wald;
forward by Lawrence Bloch (Da Capo). [H]
The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax
Cylinder to the Internet, by Brian Wright-McLeod (University of Arizona).
[D]
RAP / HIP-HOP
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, by Jeff Chang
(St. Martins). [H]
Country Fried Soul: Adventures in Dirty South Hip-Hop, by Tamara Palmer
(Backbeat). [H]
ROCK
Soft Machine: Out-bloody-rageous, by Graham Bennett (SAF). [H]
Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll, by David
Carson (University of Michigan). [H]
Mr. Tambourine Man: The Life and Legacy of the Byrds's Gene Clark, by John
Einarson (Backbeat). [H]
Dream a Little Dream of Me: The Life of "Mama" Cass Elliot, by Eddi Fiegel
(Sidgwick & Jackson). [H]
Speak to Me: The Legacy of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, by Russell
Reising, editor (Ashgate). [H]
Van Morrison: No Surrender, by Johnny Rogan (Secker & Warburg). [H]
Conversations with Tom Petty, by Paul Zollo and Tom Petty (Omnibus). [H]
JAZZ
Stan Getz: An Annotated Bibliography and Filmography with Song and Session
Information for Albums, by Nicholas Churchill (McFarland). [D]
The Last Miles: The Music of Miles Davis 1980-1991, by George Cole
(University of Michigan). [H/D]
Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band, by Lawrence Gushee (Oxford).
[H]
Bix: The Definitive Biography of a Jazz Legend: Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke
(1903-1931), by Jean Pierre Lion (Continuum). [H/D]
The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz, by
Jeffrey Magee (Oxford). [H]
Head Hunters: The Making of Jazz's First Platinum Album, by Steven F. Pond
(University of Michigan). [H]
Chasin' the Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker, by Brian Priestley
(Oxford). [H/D]
Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond, by Doug Ramsey and
Paul Caulfield (discography) (Parkside Publications, Seattle). [H]
LABELS / GENERAL HISTORY
Echo and Reverb: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, 1900-1960, by
Peter Doyle (Wesleyan University Press). [H]
Sixty Years in the Music Business, by Nathaniel Shilkret with Niel Shell and
Barbara Shilkret, editors (Scarecrow Press). [H]
Edison Blue Amberol Cylinders, by Allan Sutton (Mainspring Press). [D]
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