Following
are the finalists for the 2004 ARSC Awards for
Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research,
selected by the Awards Committee from books,
articles, and liner notes published in 2003.
ARSC is pleased to recognize the outstanding
research and discographic work done by the nominees.
Best Research in Recorded Popular Music -
- Cakewalks,
Rags and Novelties: The International Ragtime
Discography 1894-1930 by Allan Sutton (Mainspring
Press)
- Tin
Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age
of American Song by David A. Jasen (Routledge)
- Paul
Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music, 1890-1930 by Don Rayno (Scarecrow Press)
- Sondheim
on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions by Mark Eden Horowitz and Stephen Sondheim
(Scarecrow Press)
- Skylark:
The Life and Times
of Johnny Mercer by Philip Furia
(St. Martin’s
Press)
- God
Bless America:
Tin Pan Alley Goes
to War by Kathleen
E. R. Smith (University
Press of Kentucky)
- Sound
of Africa: Making
Music Zulu in a
South African Studio by Louise Meintjes
(Duke University
Press)
- Wizard
of Oz [CD liner
notes] by David
Maxine
Best
Research in Recorded Country Music -
- Southwest
Shuffle: Pioneers of Honkey Tonk, Western
Swing and Country Jazz by Richard Kienzle
(Routledge)
- Women
of Country Music: A Reader by Charles
K. Wolfe (ed.) and James E. Akenson (University
Press of Kentucky)
Best
Research in Recorded Classical Music-
- Bach
Performance Practice, 1945-1975: A Comprehensive
Review of Sound Recordings and Literature by Dorottya Fabian (Ashgate)
- Performing
Brahms: Early Evidence of Performance Style by Michael Musgrave (ed.) and Bernard D.
Sherman (ed.) (Cambridge University Press)
- Theory
and Practice in Late Nineteenth Century
Violin Performance: An Examination of Style
in Performance, 1850-1900 by
David Milsom (Ashgate)
- Cambridge
Companion to Stravinsky by Jonathan
Cross (Cambridge University Press)
- Pierre
Monteux, Maitre by John Canarina
(Amadeus Press)
- Rudolf
Serkin: A Life by Stephen Lehmann
(Oxford University Press)
Best
Research in Recorded Rock, Rhythm & Blues,
or Soul-
- At
the Apple's Core: The Beatles from the Inside
by Denis O'Dell and Bob Neaverson (Peter
Owen, Ltd.)
- The
Bootleg Guide: Classic Bootlegs of the
1960s and 1970s, an Annotated Discography by Garry Freeman (Scarecrow Press)
- Holy
Profane: Religion in Black Popular Music by Teresa L. Reed (University Press of Kentucky)
- Swinging
the Machine: Modernity, Technology and African-American
Culture Between the World Wars by Joel Dinerstein (University of Massachusetts
Press)
- Bad
Boy of Gospel Music: The Calvin Newton Story by Russ Cheatham (University Press of Mississippi)
- Music
and Technoculture by Rene T. A.
Lysloff (ed.) and Lesley C. Gay, Jr. (ed.)
(Wesleyan University Press)
Best
Research in Recorded Jazz -
- Jazz
on Record: The First Sixty Years by Scott Yanow (Backbeat Books)
- Making
Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar
Paris by Jeffrey H. Jackson (Duke
University Press)
- Good
Vibes: A Life in Jazz by Terry
Gibbs with Cary Ginell (Scarecrow Press)
- Jean “Django” Reinhardt:
A Contextual Bio-Discography, 1910-1953 by Paul Vernon (Ashgate)
- Charlie
Christian: Solo Flight: The Story of the
Seminal Electric Guitarist by Peter
Broadbent (Ashley Mark) (2nd edition)
- Jelly’s
Blues: The Life, Music and Redemption of
Jelly Roll Morton by Howard Reich
and William Gaines (DaCapo Press)
- African-American
Jazz Musicians in the Diaspora by Larry Ross (Edwin Mellen Press)
- The
Cat on a Hot Thin Groove by Gene
Deitch (Fantagraphics Books)
- Freedom
Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of
the Sixties by Scott Saul (Harvard University Press)
Best
Research in Recorded Blues and Gospel Music -
- Stagolee
Shot Billy by Cecil Brown (Harvard University Press)
- Great
God a’Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds:
Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music by J. Jerome Zolten (Oxford University
Press)
- Robert
Johnson: Lost and Found by Barry Lee
Pearson and Bill McCulloch (University of Illinois
Press)
- Out
of Sight: The Rise of African American
Popular Music, 1889–1895 by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff (University
Press of Mississippi)
Best
Research in Record Labels or Manufacturers -
- Paramount’s
Rise and Fall: A History of the Wisconsin Chair
Company and its Recording Activities by Alex
van der Tuuk (Mainspring Press)
- Folkways
Records: Moses Asch and his Encyclopedia
of Sound by Anthony Olmstead
(Routledge)
- His
Master’s Voice: The Perfect Portable
Gramophone by Dave Cooper (New
Cavendish Books)
