FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Association for Recorded Sound Collections Announces Finalists for ARSC Awards for

Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research

Eugene, Oregon – July 15, 2022

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2022

ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Additional information

about the ARSC Awards for Excellence can be found at www.arsc-audio.org/awards.

Begun in 1991, the ARSC Awards are given to authors of books, articles or recording liner notes

to recognize those publishing the very best work today in recorded sound research. In giving

Rob Bamberger (Jazz Music Judge); Dennis Rooney (Classical Music Judge); Matthew Barton

(Popular Music Judge); Cary Ginell (Judge-At-Large); Richard Spottswood (Judge-at-Large);

designee); and Roberta Freund Schwartz (Awards Committee Chair).

The 2022 Awards for Excellence honor books published in 2021.

BEST RESEARCH IN RECORDED ROCK OR POPULAR MUSIC

Michael S. Begnal, The Music and Noise of the Stooges, 1967-71: Lost in the Future

(Routledge)

Bill Schnee, Chairman at the Board: Recording the Soundtrack of a Generation (Backbeat

Books)

Jim and Joanna Smolko, Atomic Tunes: The Cold War in American and British Popular Music

(University of Indiana Press)

Dave Thompson, I Feel Love: Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and How They Reinvented

Duane Tudhal, Prince and the Parade and Sign O' The Times Era Studio Sessions: 1985 and

1986 (Rowman & Littlefield)

Christian Broecking, trans. Jeb Bishop, This Uncontainable Feeling of Freedom: Irène

A&M Press)

Celeste Day Moore, Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France

(Duke University Press)

Richard Brent Turner, Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black

Internationalism (NYU Press)

Mark Marrington, Recording the Classical Guitar (Routledge)

Songs from the British-Irish-American Oral Tradition as Recorded in the Early Twentieth

Century (A-R Editions)

Adil Johan and Mayco A. Santaella, eds., Made in Nusantara: Studies in Popular Music

(Routledge)

John Milward, Americanaland: Where Country & Western Met Rock 'n' Roll (University of

Ríonach uí Ógáin, Colm Ó Caodháin: An Irish singer and his world (Cork University Press)

Discontent (University of North Carolina Press)

Robert M. Marovich, Peace Be Still: How James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir Created a

Gospel Classic (University of Illinois Press)

Kevin Mungons and Douglas Yeo, Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music

Industry (University of Illinois Press)

Publishing)

Larry Simon, ed. John Broven, New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the

Village and Beyond (University Press of Mississippi)

Stephan Puille, David Giovannoni and Richard Martin, Etching the Voice: Emile Berliner and

the First Commercial Gramophone Discs, 1889-1895 (Archeophone)

Paul Slade, Black Swan Blues: The Hard Rise & Brutal Fall of America's First Black-owned

Record Company (PlanetSlade)

BEST HISTORICAL RESEARCH ON RECORD LABELS OR GENERAL RECORDING

Peter Adamson, "Early Scientific Study of Speech on Gramophone Recordings," For the Record

(Journal of the City of London Phonograph and Gramphone Society) 79: 399-407 and 80: 459-

467

Edison Phonograph to Britain (self-published)

(Oxford University Press)

Du Jun Min and Pekka Gronow, Contributions to the History of the Record Industry Vol. 11;

Papers from the Shanghai Conference 28-29, 2019 (Gesellschaft für Historische Tonträger)

Richard Raichelson, Orlando R. Marsh: Chicago’s Pioneer of Electrical Recording (Arcadia

Records)

Helen Reddington, She's at the Controls: Sound Engineering, Production and Gender

Ventriloquism in the 21st Century (Equinox Press Ltd.)

Eva Morena Rodriguez, Inventing the Recording (Oxford University Press)

Ben Wynne, Something in the Water: A History of Music in Macon, Georgia, 1823-1980

(Mercer University Press)

Contact:

Roberta Freund Schwartz

Chair, Awards Committee

rfschwar@ku.edu

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