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Call For Papers: Chapel Hill 2000
Vienna Hosts Centenary Celebrations of Sound Archiving
Anthony Barnett Awarded ARSC Grant
ARSC at Work (Committee Report)
ARSC Grants are now available
Introducing ARSC People
Virginia Danielson
Coming Events of Possible Interest to Members
Publication Information
Eminence Records presents finest archival recordings
James Melton Early Years Vol. 1-2
Radio Recordings Vols. 1-15
The Revelers Vol. 1
The Revelers Vol. 2 with James Melton
Gladys Swarthout Vol. 1-2
John Charles Thomas Vol. 1-2
Igor Garin
Carlos Remeriz Vol. 1
Patrice Munsel
Nelson Eddy Coming Soon
Many New Releases
Contact Andrew S. Pope
12517 Millstream Drive
Bowie, MD 20715
301-262-4439
The Board of Directors of ARSC has created a new position and seeks qualified candidates for the position of Assistant Editor of the ARSC Journal, the premier journal of its kind in the world. The successful candidate will work directly with the editor of the ARSC Journal and assume responsibility for publication design and page layout, following agreed upon guidelines and specifications. The individual will also be responsible for production coordination, working primarily with the designated printing company. Familiarity with computer technology in publication work, including page design/layout software is a prerequisite and experience in print production is an asset.
For information or to apply, contact Barry R. Ashpole, Editor, ARSC Journal at ashpole@telsec.net or by phone at (416) 362-4804 (during normal business hours), or (416) 486-9669 (evenings or weekends).
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The Columbia Master Book Discography, by Tim Brooks and Brian Rust (Discographies No.78 / ISBN 0-313-21464-6) is now available direct from Greenwood Press for $395.00
ARSC Members may take 20% off the above price when ordering!
For more information, contact Greenwood Press at
Greenwood Publishing Group
88 Post Road West
Westport, CT 06881
(203) 226-3571
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Many books of interest to ARSC members never come to the attention of the Journal's editor or book review editor. They are published by small companies or self published by authors. Both often overlook ARSC as a means of getting the word out about their works.
Keep us informed of what you read. Send us details (of title, author, publisher, etc.) and we will arrange for a review to be published in the ARSC Journal. And if there are any books, whether from small or large publishing houses relevant to the interests of ARSC members, that we have overlooked - tell us!
Barry R. Ashpole
Editor, ARSC Journal
e-mail: ashpole@telsec.net
or by phone at (416) 362-4804 (during normal business hours)
or (416) 486-9669 (evenings or weekends)
Jack Palmer
145 North 21st St.
Battle Creek, MI 49015-1704
Antonio Popp
Schillerstr. 9
65549 LIMBURG
GERMANY
Telephone+Fax: (49) 6431 41717
Collecting recordings of show music has been a life-long hobby with me, and one offshoot of that hobby has been the publishing of the reference book SHOW MUSIC ON RECORD: THE FIRST 100 YEARS. Selling the book is not a commercial enterprise; but I very much want to get the information into the hands of institutions and collectors of show records.
Last year the book was expanded and updated, and now it is available in both soft-cover and CD-ROM (PC format). The CD is easy to use and provides instant accessibility to information. Type "Merry Widow" on the Search Screen and in a fraction of a second you have on your screen the recordings of the show. Type "Victor Herbert" and instantly you have recordings of his shows and performances as a, conductor. In the same way, you can search for song titles or manufacturers' labels. Links will take you to anthologies or artist albums, and will list the contents of those albums.
The book lists all original cast records from 1890 to 1998, covering music of the American stage, screen, and television. More than 4,600 shows are listed, with more than 30,000 references in the nominal index. Listings include cylinders, 78s, LPs, CDs and the odd format here and there. They include stage musicals, revues, TV musicals, film musicals, and individual records by cast members of songs from their shows.
There is also a section for albums by theater/screen artists and another section for anthologies. In all, 1,836 of these artist albums and anthologies are listed in the latest edition, which is one-third more than appeared in the previous edition, published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1992.
The new 586-page edition of the book is available in soft cover for $29, or as a
CD-ROM (PC format) for $19. Plus $3 shipping US or $5 foreign. Sterling equivalent is
acceptable. Send checks to:
Jack Raymond
3713 George Mason Drive #1714
Falls Church, VA, USA 22041
e-mail: jraymond@alumni.princeton.edu
Wolfgang Schneidereit
Am Weinberg 8
D-35037 Marburg
GERMANY
Telephone: (49)-6421-62406
e-mail: WSchnei@aol.com
A number of new projects are being developed in ARSC that will help our organization better serve the needs of the historical sound archives and collector communities. I am proud to serve as president of an organization that demonstrates such depth of expertise and commitment to furthering an understanding and appreciation for historical sound recordings through its programs and initiatives that promote research, education, preservation and access. I write now to ask you to support these efforts by volunteering your time, and by making a financial contribution that will allow ARSC to sustain projects and programs that support our mission.
Here are a few of the many projects now underway within ARSC:
Last Spring, an ARSC member wrote to me to ask if he could help support the costs of our annual conference in Madison. Although he wished to remain anonymous, he said that he hoped his gift might inspire other ARSC members who are in a position to do so, to make a significant contribution to ARSC, as well. Our membership dues are spent almost exclusively to offset the costs of our publications and mailings, with very little funding left over to support worthy projects at the committee level. Raising the level of contributions ARSC receives on an ongoing basis will help our organization remain true to its mission while keeping membership dues as low as possible. A donation to ARSC can be unrestricted in purpose or support a particular program or project. Other organizations rely heavily on their members' contributions of time and money. It is important for us to develop a stronger fiscal foundation for ARSC, as well, and we cannot do so without your support.
For more information on ways that you can contribute, please feel free to contact me directly or write to Peter Shambarger, Executive Director, P.O. Box 543, Annapolis, MD 21440-0543.
Suzanne Stover, ARSC President
Eastman School of Music
26 Gibbs Street
Rochester, NY 14604
(716) 274-1049
e-mail: ssto@mail.rochester.edu
As Program Chair, I invite program proposals and suggestions from members and non-members alike. Please put forth your ideas in either a letter or an e-mail and send them to:
Dr. Michael BielPlease give a title, brief synopsis of the topic, a list of possible or proposed participants if other than yourself alone, and how much time you think this would need. If you just want to propose an interesting topic and have us find participants, send those suggestions along too! This is your conference, and we want to present a program that will be of interest to everybody. If there is some area or topic you have felt were under-represented in recent conferences, let us know.
ARSC Program Chair
Morehead State University, UPO 893
Morehead, Kentucky 40351 USA
e-mail address: m.biel@morehead-st.edu
(if emailing, please use this office address and start subject line with: ARSC CONF).
Chapel Hill was the scene of one of our most memorable conferences, way back in 1981. It is a fine location and we hope you'll find the program so inviting that you would even walk to get there! So run on over to your computer or mailbox and get those program proposals in!
Michael Biel, Ph.D., 2nd Vice-President & Program Chair
A major topic of the celebration was the preservation of millions of hours of material including oral histories, dialects and natural sounds plus the world's recorded music and literature currently held on tape, vinyl, shellac and CD. Digitization and the new possibilities of access to sound recordings via the Internet also occupied attendees. "Sound recordings have been a vital cultural ingredient of the last 100 years and therefore need to be preserved for future generations, " said Sven Allerstrand, IASA Past President. "We need to safeguard this material against physical deterioration and unlawful activity," he added.
This is the job of sound archivists, and most countries world-wide now sustain sound archives. The early work of the Vienna Phonogrammarchiv was directed towards traditional music and languages from around the world. The first recordings, recorded on their own device, the Wiener Archiv-Phonograph, were made in 1901 on expeditions to Croatia, the Isle of Lesbos, and to Brazil. These have been published on CD. Many of the Phonogrammarchiv's unique recordings have recently been included in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
The Phonogrammarchiv's birthday celebration is on September 20th at the Academy's Festsaal, the location where Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 was premiered. For further information about the Austrian Phonogrammarchiv contact Dietrich Schuller. IASA represents archives from all over the world. In the United States the archive contact is Ted Sheldon, Miller Nichols Library, University of Missouri-Kansas City, MO 64110-2499; Telephone: 816.235.1531.
Both ARSC members and non-members are eligible for grants in amounts up to $1000. Grant funds can be used to underwrite clerical, travel, and editorial expenses; funds may not be used to purchase capital equipment or recordings, to reimburse applicants for work already performed, or to support projects which form part of a job or academic program. Grant recipients are required to submit brief descriptions of their projects for publication in the ARSC Journal & documentation of their expenses before reimbursement; and funds must be disbursed within eighteen months of the grant award.
Applications for an ARSC grant should include:
1. A summary of the project (one page maximum) with samples of the work attached
if possible;
2. A budget covering the entire project and highlighting the expenses the ARSC
grant will cover (one page maximum);
3. A curriculum vitae;
4. An indication of the prospects for publication or other public presentation of
the project results.
Applications should be sent to:
Richard Warren, Grants Committee Chair
Historical Sound Recordings
Yale University Library
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
U.S.A.
The deadline for receipt of applications is February 29, 2000. Grants will be awarded at the ARSC Board of Directors meeting held each spring in conjunction with the ARSC Annual Conference.
An ARSC member since 1993, Virginia also has been active in the International Association of Sound and Audio-Visual Archives, the Music Library Association, the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the American Musicological Society. She has participated in University Library committees at Harvard that are responsible for preservation and access to non-book materials.
Her research has focused on musics of the Arab world. She is the author of numerous articles on Arabic song, female singers and Muslim devotional music. She is a co-editor of the forthcoming volume on musics of the Middle East and Central Asia in the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Her book, The Voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song and Egyptian Society in the 20th Century, was nominated for an ARSC award in 1998. Virginia assumed the responsibilities of ARSC Secretary in May of this year.
1999:
Oct. 29-30 ISO/AES Joint Technical Commission - Montreal
Nov. 1-6 AMIA Annual Conference - Montreal
2000:
Jan. 14-19 ALA Midwinter Conference - San Antonio
Jan. 19-22 IASA/AMIA Joint Technical Symposium - Paris, France
Feb. 19-22 AES 108th Convention - Paris, France
Feb. 23-27 MuLA Annual Conference - Louisville, KY
Apr. 5-9 SAA b Annual Conference - Philadelphia
May 31-June 3 ARSC Annual Conference - Chapel Hill, NC
June? ISO/AES Joint Technical Commission - TBA
July 6-12 ALA Annual Conference - Chicago
July 3-7 IASA Annual Conference - Singapore
Aug. 6-11 IAML Annual Conference - Edinburgh
Aug. 13-16 IFLA General Conference - Jerusalem
2001:
Sept. 23-26 IASA Annual Conference - London
Note:
AES = Audio Engineering Society
ALA = American Library Association
AMIA = Association of Moving Image Archivists
ANSI = American National Standards Institute
IAML = International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centers
IASA = International Association of Sound and Audio-Visual Archives
IFLA = International Federal of Library Associations
ISO = International Standards Organization
MuLA = Music Library Association
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Ricki Kushner, Advertising Manager
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P.O. Box 543
Annapolis, MD 21404-0543
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No. 89 (Fall 1999) Advertising: October 18, 1999 Editorial: October 25, 1999
No. 90 (Winter 2000) Advertising: January 22, 2000 Editorial: January 29, 2000
No. 91 (Spring 2000) Advertising: May 14, 2000 Editorial: June 2, 2000
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