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--- 2009 ARSC AWARDS ---

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) is pleased to announce
the winners of the 2009 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded
Sound Research. 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 -- one for best history and one for
best discography. Certificates of Merit are presented to runners-up of
exceptionally high quality. The 2009 Awards for Excellence honor works
published in 2008. Additionally, a Lifetime Achievement Award and Award for
Distinguished Service to Historical Recordings are also presented annually.
The 2009 winners are:

BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED BLUES, GOSPEL, RHYTHM & BLUES, or SOUL MUSIC

I Got Two Wings: Incidents and Anecdotes of the Two Winged Preacher and
Electric Guitar Evangelist, Elder Utah Smith; by Lynn Abbott (Case Quarter)

Certificate of Merit:
Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound, by Alan B. Govenar (Texas A&M
Press)

BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED CLASSICAL MUSIC

Best Discography:
Boston Symphony Orchestra: An Augmented Discography, by James H. North
(Scarecrow Press)

Best History:
A Charles Ives Omnibus, by James Mack Burk (Pendragon)

Certificates of Merit:

After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance, by Kenneth
Hamilton (Oxford University Press)

Sprechstimme in Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire: A Study of Vocal
Performance Practice, by Aidan Soder (Edwin Mellen Press)

BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED COUNTRY MUSIC

Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South, by
Patrick Huber (University of North Carolina Press)

Certificates of Merit:

Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens, by Hazel Dickens
and Bill C. Malone (University of Illinois Press)

Merle Haggard: Concepts Live.1968-1976, by Deke Dickerson (Bear Family)

BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED FOLK, ETHNIC, or WORLD MUSIC

Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance and Urban Culture in Los
Angeles, 1935-1968; by Anthony Macias (Duke University Press)

Certificate of Merit:
Lemko Folk Music on Wax Cylinders and American Recordings, 1901-1930; by
Bogdan Horbal and Walter Maksimovich (self-published)

BEST RESEARCH in GENERAL HISTORY of RECORDED SOUND

Den Talande Maskinen: De Forsta Inspelade Ljuden I Sverige Och Norden (The
Talking Machine: The First Recorded Sounds in Sweden and Scandinavia); by
Tony Franzen, Gunnar Sundberg, and Lars Thelander (Suomen
Aanitearkisto/Finlands Ljudarkiv)

Certificate of Merit:
Sound Media: A Theory of Live Journalism and Musical Recording, by Lars Nyre
(Routledge)

BEST RESEARCH in RECORD LABELS

Best Discography:
Montgomery Ward Records: A Discography, by Allan Sutton (Mainspring Press)

Best History:
Revolutionizing Children's Records: The Young People's Records and
Children's Record Guild Series, 1946-1977; by David Bonner (Scarecrow Press)

Certificate of Merit:
The Edison Discography, 1926-1929; by Raymond R. Wile (Mainspring Press)

BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED JAZZ MUSIC

Best Discography:
John Coltrane Reference; by Chris DeVito, David Wild, Yasuhiro Fujioka, and
Wolf Schmaler; edited by Lewis Porter (Routledge)

Best History:
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music, by
George E. Lewis (University of Chicago Press)

Certificates of Merit:

Backstory in Blue: Ellington at Newport '56, by John Fass Morton (Rutgers
University Press)

Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs; by Milt
Hinton, David Berger and Holly Maxson (Vanderbilt University Press)

Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop; by Jeremy Yudkin
(Indiana University Press)

Luck's in My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page, by Todd Bryant
Weeks (Routledge)

Delightfulee: The Life and Music of Lee Morgan, by Jeffrey McMillan
(University of Michigan Press)

Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making, by Gabriel
Solis (University of California Press)

BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED ROCK and POPULAR MUSIC

Sgt. Pepper and The Beatles: It Was Forty Years Ago Today; by Olivier Julien
(Ashgate)

Certificate of Merit:

Mondo Exotica: Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation; by
Francesco Adinolfi (Duke University Press)

So You Want To Be a Rock and Roll Star: The Byrds Day-By-Day, 1965-1973; by
Christopher Hjort (Jawbone Press)

Hot Burritos: The True Story of the Flying Burrito Brothers, by John
Einarson and Chris Hillman (Jawbone Press)


2009 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: CRISTOBAL DIAZ-AYALA

ARSC annually presents a Lifetime Achievement Award to an individual, in
recognition of a life's work in recorded sound research and publication.

Cristobal Diaz-Ayala was born and educated in Havana, where he received
degrees in journalism, the social sciences, and law. He joined the flood of
emigres from there, in 1961.

His lifelong love of the music of his birthplace led him to study and
publish works on the history of Cuban music styles, their presentation on
stage, radio, and other media, and their appearance on historical sound
recordings from 1905 (the earliest known) to the present day. He has written
several books, including "San Juan - New York: Discografia de la Musica
Puertorriquena 1900-1942," published this year.

In 1994, Diaz-Ayala received the ARSC Award for Best Research in Recorded
Folk or Ethnic Music, for his book-length "Discografia de la Musica Cubana."

Diaz-Ayala was producer and host for "CUBANACAN," a long-running syndicated
radio series.

He became well known for assembling a major collection of sound recordings,
sheet music, and other ephemera that now resides at Florida International
University in Miami.


2009 AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO HISTORICAL RECORDINGS: WARD MARSTON

ARSC's Award for Distinguished Service to Historical Recordings honors a
person who has made outstanding contributions to the field, outside of
published works or discographic research.
In 1979, Ward Marston put himself on the map as one of the world's leading
transfer engineers with his restoration of the experimental Bell
Laboratories Wide Range and Stereophonic recordings of Leopold Stokowski and
the Philadelphia Orchestra, made in 1931 and 1932. Audiophiles and music
lovers alike were stunned by the remarkable recorded sound Marston was able
to extract from the Bell recordings. The painstaking manual synchronization
of the dual-band stereophonic recordings would be typical of the care and
attention to detail that Marston would bring to so many future projects.

Since that time, Marston's work has appeared on the labels of many major
record companies. His 11-CD collection devoted to the Victor recordings of
Fritz Kreisler, released in 1995, received a Grammy nomination for Best
Historical Album. Marston's other significant historical projects were: the
Franklin Mint Toscanini Collection, BMG's 10-CD Complete Rachmaninoff, the
12-CD Philadelphia Orchestra Centennial Collection, the complete recordings
of Josef Hofmann, and the complete recordings of Caruso for the Pearl and
Naxos labels.

In 1997, he formed his own record label, Marston, concentrating on the
reissue of recordings by performers neglected by the major record companies,
including an ongoing series devoted to the acoustically recorded, complete
operas on Pathe. His most recent achievements on his own label include the
Julius Block collection, a three-CD collection of rare, privately-made
cylinder recordings featuring some of the most important musical
personalities of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The success of Marston's work over the past 30 years is a result of a rare
combination of musical knowledge and sensitivity, together with technical
skill.


2009 ARSC AWARDS COMMITTEE

Winners are chosen by the ARSC Awards Committee: five elected judges
representing specific fields of study, plus the ARSC President, and the Book
Review Editor of the ARSC Journal. The members of the 2009 ARSC Awards
Committee are:

Robert Iannapollo (Awards Committee Co-Chair)
Roberta Freund-Schwartz (Awards Committee Co-Chair)
Brenda Nelson-Strauss (Awards Committee)
David Seubert (ARSC President)
Jim 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)
Dick Spottswood (Judge-at-Large)

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings -- in all genres
of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. ARSC is unique in
bringing together private individuals and institutional professionals --
everyone with a serious interest in recorded sound. Additional information
about ARSC, including lists of past ARSC Award Winners and Finalists, may be
found at http://www.arsc-audio.org.