Finalists for the 2003 ARSC Awards for Excellence

These are the finalists for the 2003 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Begun in 1991, this year a blue-ribbon Awards Committee selected by the membership poured through scores of books, articles, and liner notes published in 2002. ARSC is pleased to recognize the outstanding research and discographic work done by the nominees.

Best Research in Recorded Popular Music -

  • Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music, by Mark Allan Powell (Hendrickson Publishers)
  • Stardust Melody: the Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael, by Richard M. Sudhalter (Oxford University Press)
  • Stardust Melodies: the Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs, by Will Friedwald (Pantheon Books)
  • Roadkill on the Three-Chord Highway: Art and Trash in American Popular Music, by Colin Escott (Routledge)

Best Research in Recorded Folk or Ethnic Music -

  • Lalo: My Life and Music, by Lalo Guerrero and Sherilyn Mentes (University of Arizona Press)
  • Reggae & Caribbean Music, Dave Thompson (Backbeat Books)
  • Tejano Proud: Tex-Mex Music in the Twentieth Century, by Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr. (Texas A & M University Press)
  • The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record Grooves, and Popular Culture in Cali, Colombia, by Lise Waxer (Wesleyan University Press)
  • Harry Choates: Devil in the Bayou, Andy Brown (notes to Bear Family CD set)
  • Sam Manning: the Complete Output, 1924-1930, vols. 1 & 2, by John Cowley and Steve Shapiro (notes to Jazz Oracle CD set)

Best Research in Recorded Country Music-

  • Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?: the Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music, Mark Zwonitzer and Charles Hirshberg (Simon & Schuster)
  • Country Music Sources: A Biblio-Discography of Commercially Recorded Traditional Music, by Guthrie T. Meade, Richard K. Spottswood, and Douglas S. Meade (Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries in Association with the John Edwards Memorial Forum)
  • Singing in the Saddle: the History of the Singing Cowboy, by Douglas B. Green (Country Music Foundation Press and Vanderbilt University Press)
  • Blue Moon of Kentucky: Bill Monroe, 1936-1949, by Charles Wolfe (notes to Bear Family CD set)

Best Research in Recorded Classical Music

  • The Extraordinary Operatic Adventures of Blanche Arral, by Blanche Arral; trans. by Ira Glackens; ed. by William R. Moran (Amadeus Press)
  • The Composer-Pianists: Hamelin and The Eight, by Robert Rimm (Amadeus Press)
  • George Crumb: a Bio-Bibliography, by David Cohen (Greenwood Press)
  • Vladimir de Pachmann: a Piano Virtuoso's Life and Art, by Mark Mitchell (Indiana University Press)
  • Caruso Records: a History and Discography, by John Richard Bolig (Mainspring Press)
  • Emanuel Feuermann, by Annette Morreau (Yale University Press)

Best Research in Recorded Rock, Rhythm & Blues, or Soul -

  • Jimi Hendrix and the Making of Are You Experienced, by Sean Egan (A Cappella)
  • Every Sound There Is: the Beatles' Revolver and the Transformation of Rock and Roll, by Russell Reising (Ashgate)
  • Rock 'n' Roll and the Cleveland Connection, Deanna R. Adams (Kent State University Press)
  • Jethro Tull: A History of the Band, 1968-2001, by Scott Allen Nollen (McFarland)
  • Brown-Eyed Handsome Man: The Life of Chuck Berry, by Bruce Pegg (Routledge)
  • The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop, by Murray Forman (Wesleyan University Press)

Best Research in Recorded Jazz -

  • Gil Evans: Out of the Cool: His Life and Music, by Stephanie Stein Crease (A Cappella)
  • Bill Evans: Everything Happens To Me: A Musical Biography, by Keith Shadwick (Backbeat Books)
  • Rat Race Blues: the Musical Life of Gigi Gryce, by Noal Cohen and Michael Fitzgerald (Berkeley Hills Books)
  • A Jazz Odyssey: the Life of Oscar Peterson, by Oscar Peterson; ed. by Richard Palmer (Continuum)
  • Roy Eldridge, Little Jazz Giant, by John Chilton (Continuum)
  • Castles Made of Sound: the Story of Gil Evans, by Larry Hicock (Da Capo Press)
  • Charlie Barnet: An Illustrated Biography and Discography of the Swing Era Big Band Leader, by Dan Mather (McFarland)
  • Something to Live For: the Music of Billy Strayhorn, by Walter van de Leur (Oxford University Press)
  • A Love Supreme: the Story of John Coltrane s Signature Album, by Ashley Kahn (Viking)
  • Latin Jazz: the Perfect Combination/La Combinacion Perfecta, by Raul Fernandez (Chronicle Books)

Best Research in Recorded Blues and Gospel Music -

  • Can't be Satisfied: the Life and Times of Muddy Waters, by Robert Gordon (Little Brown)
  • Blues with a Feeling: the Little Walter Story, by Tony Glover, Scott Dirks, and Ward Gaines (Routledge)
  • The Pilgrim Jubilees, by Alan Young (University Press of Mississippi)

Best Research General Discography and History of Recorded Sound -

  • Music Inspired By Art: A Guide to Recordings, by Gary Evans (Scarecrow Press and the Music Library Association)

Best Research in Record Labels or Manufacturers -

  • Exploding: the Highs, Hits, Hype, Heroes, and Hustlers of the Warner Music Group by Stan Cornyn and Paul Scanlon (Harper Entertainment)
  • Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power, by Gerald L. Posner (Random House)





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