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--2006 ARSC AWARDS-- The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is pleased to announce the winners of the 2006 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 2006 Awards for Excellence honor works published in 2005. BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED BLUES, RHYTHM & BLUES, or SOUL MUSIC Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke, by Peter Guralnick (Little, Brown). Certificate of Merit: Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay, by Louis Cantor (University of Illinois Press). BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED CLASSICAL MUSIC Best History: Rachmaninoff: Life, Works, Recordings, by Max Harrison (Continuum). Best Discography: While Spring and Summer Sang: Thomas Beecham and the Music of Frederick Delius, by Lyndon Jenkins (Ashgate). BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED COUNTRY MUSIC King of the Cowboys, Queen of the West: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, by Ray White (University of Wisconsin Press). BEST RESEARCH in FOLK, ETHNIC, or WORLD MUSIC Bob Marley and the Wailers: The Definitive Discography, by Roger Steffens and Leroy Jodie Pierson (Rounder Books). Certificate of Merit: The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet, by Brian Wright-McLeod (University of Arizona Press). BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED RAP or HIP-HOP MUSIC Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, by Jeff Chang (St. Martin's Press). BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED ROCK MUSIC Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll, by David Carson (University of Michigan Press). Certificates of Merit: Soft Machine: Out-bloody-rageous, by Graham Bennett (SAF). Dream a Little Dream of Me: The Life of "Mama" Cass Elliot, by Eddi Fiegel (Chicago Review Press, U.S.; Sidgwick and Jackson, U.K.). BEST RESEARCH in RECORDED JAZZ MUSIC Best Discography: Stan Getz: An Annotated Bibliography and Filmography with Song and Session Information for Albums, by Nicholas Churchill (McFarland). Best History: Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond, by Doug Ramsey and Paul Caulfield (Discography) (Parkside Publications). Certificates of Merit: Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band, by Lawrence Gushee (Oxford University Press). Bix: The Definitive Biography of a Jazz Legend: Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke (1903-1931), by Jean Pierre Lion (Continuum). The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz, by Jeffrey Magee (Oxford University Press). BEST RESEARCH in RECORD LABELS and GENERAL HISTORY Best History: Echo and Reverb: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, 1900-1960, by Peter Doyle (Wesleyan University Press). Best Discography: Edison Blue Amberol Cylinders, by Allan Sutton (Mainspring Press). LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ARSC annually presents a Lifetime Achievement Award to an individual, in recognition of a life's work in recorded sound research and publication. The 2006 award was presented to Allen Koenigsberg for his pioneering work in documenting the first 50 years of recorded music. Koenigsberg was the founder, editor, and publisher of The Antique Phonograph Monthly (1973-1993). His articles for APM and other publications have been on subjects as varied as the 1889 introduction of the phonograph into Russia, Lambert cylinders (discography), the origin of the telephone greeting "hello," and debunking the "Walt Whitman cylinder." Koenigsberg also authored two books. "Edison Cylinder Records, 1889-1912" catalogs and dates over 10,000 songs and artists from the period. "The Patent History of the Phonograph, 1877-1912" contains listings of 2,118 U.S. sound recording patents issued to 1,013 inventors, and a detailed commentary on 101 most significant patents and designs. Koenigsberg has contributed generously to the works of many other authors, and has issued numerous reprints of early literature on phonographs and recordings. AWARD for DISTINGUISHED SERVICE to HISTORIC RECORDINGS 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. This year's award was presented to Franz Lechleitner, the Chief Audio Engineer of the Vienna Phonogrammarchiv, until his retirement in 2004. During his 31-year tenure at the Phonogrammarchiv, Lechleitner worked tirelessly to improve various technologies and standards, serving preservation and access for historical sound recordings. His achievements included the design and development of several generations of machines for archival cylinder playback. He expertly preserved recordings held in many important collections in archives throughout Europe and Asia, including more than 2000 unique, field-recorded cylinders. One set of his transfers formed the basis of a major Phonogrammarchiv project: "The Complete Historical Collections, 1899-1950," a CD set commemorating the archive's 100th anniversary in 1999. Lechleitner served on the Audio Engineering Society's SC-03 "Subcommittee on the Preservation and Restoration of Audio Recording." He has been a member of the IASA Technical Committee since 1977, and has published numerous technical papers and discographies. As a consultant to the Vienna Phonogrammarchiv and other institutions, Lechleitner remains active in the field of historic recordings. 2006 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 2006 ARSC Awards Committee are: Robert Iannapollo (Awards Committee Co-Chair) Roberta Freund-Schwartz (Awards Committee Co-Chair) Brenda Nelson-Strauss (now ARSC Past-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) Richard Spottswood (Judge-at-Large) Additional information about ARSC, including lists of past ARSC Award Winners and Finalists, may be found at www.arsc-audio.org.
