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Number 108 • Summer 2005 2005 Conference Breaks All Records! Events Our Recent Annual Conference in Austin Was a Great Success, and Just a Whole Lot of Fun Newsletter Association For Recorded Sound Collections Number 108 • Summer 2005 2005 Conference Breaks All Records! Events Our recent annual conference in Austin was a great success, and just a whole lot of fun. The weather was magnificent, the banquet outstanding, the March 17-20, 2006. 40th Annual ARSC Conference, Seattle, Washington. http:// fellowship stimulating, and the presentations were interesting and varied. www.arsc-audio.org/ Official attendance for the Austin conference was 175, which bested our previous record by around 50 persons, and we had 75 first-timers, many August 13-14, 2005. CAPS Show and Sale, of whom indicated that they would be attending future conferences. Buena Park, CA. http://www.ca-phono.org/ show_and_sale.html Thanks to our Lo- cal Arrangements August 15-21, 2005. Society of American Committee, tours Archivists (SAA), Annual Meeting, New to the Lyndon B. Orleans, LA. http://www.archivists.org/ Johnson Presiden- conference/index.asp tial Library and the Austin City September 11-15, 2005. International Asso- Limits studio went ciation of Sound and Audiovisual Ar- chives (IASA), Annual Conference, Barcelona, without a hitch, Spain. Archives speak: who listens? http:// and other than a www.gencat.net/bc/iasa2005/index.htm brief Texas frog- strangler, the October 7-10, 2005. Audio Engineering Soci- weather was ety (AES), Annual Convention, New York City. beautiful and http://www.aes.org/events/119/ David Hough, audio engineer for the PBS program Austin City Lim- cooperative. its, on the set of the show at the KLRU studios on the UT campus. October 23, 2005. Mechanical Music We had nearly 100 Extravaganza. Wayne, NJ. guests at the banquet at Threadgill’s. The room was perfect and the presenta- http://www.antique-sound.com/ tion by the Kitchen Sisters well-received. I don’t know about what anyone else had, but the chicken-fried steak, fried okra, and pecan pie were delicious! November 30-December 3, 2005. Association (Continued on page 3) of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), An- nual Conference, Austin, Texas. http://www .amiaconference.com/ Davies and Strachwitz First-class Please send notices of events to the editor. Receive ARSC Awards Newsletter Traditional music empresario Chris At the spring Board of Contents Strachwitz and jazz restorer John R.T. Da- Directors meeting in Austin, ARSC Conference page 1 vies were awarded ARSC’s Lifetime the board voted to return to ARSC Awards page 1 Achievement Award and the Distinguished mailing the Newsletter first President’s Message page 2 Service Award at the annual conference in class. The Newsletter ARSC Board page 3 Austin in April. The Lifetime Achivement switched from first class to Copyright and Fair Use pages 5-6 Award was presented to Strachwitz for his bulk in the late 1990s, but it Grammy Grants page 7 pioneering work in researching traditional had become increasingly Conference CDs page 8 musics in the Americas. Davies was honored difficult recently to have all Capitol v. Naxos page 10 with the Distinguished Service to Historic of the copy ready to meet 2005 Recording Registry page 12 Recordings Award for his meticulous trans- newsletter deadlines and LC Moves to Virginia page 14 fers of classic recordings of jazz and blues. still be pertinent when the Call for Papers page 15 (Continued on page 4) Newsletter arrived. Mac A. Sheets page 16 New Members pages 18-19 Association for Recorded Sound Collections www.arsc-audio.org President’s Message ARSC conferences just keep getting better and better, and Austin was ARSC Newsletter no exception. From the pre-conference workshop through the final banquet, all previous attendance records were shattered. I guess everything really is bigger in Texas! For those of you who missed the conference, we will soon Issue 108 be mounting all of the session abstracts on the ARSC website, and confer- Summer 2005 ence tapes are now for sale (see page eight). The ARSC Newsletter is published three times a During the past year, a number of board members worked extremely year in June, October, and January. Submis- hard to pull the Austin conference together. I’d like to give special thanks to sions should be addressed to the editor. Sub- Louise Spear and the Program Committee, David Hunter and the Local Ar- missions by email are encouraged. rangements Committee, Conference Manager Kurt Nauck, Anna-Maria Manuel and the Outreach Committee, as well as Education Committee Co- Editor Chairs Sara Velez and Nancy Seeger and Technical Committee Co-Chairs David Seubert Michael Casey and Adrian Cosentini. Not only did they put together a fabu- Davidson Library lous program, but they also mounted an unprecedented publicity campaign University of California which obviously paid off. An extra measure of thanks should also go to Kurt Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010 and David, who had to work long hours during the final weeks before the [email protected] conference to accommodate the large number of registrants. Telephone: 805-893-5444 At the conclusion of the annual Business Meeting in Austin, I had the Fax: 805-893-5749 great pleasure of announcing the results of the elections. Sam Brylawski was elected First Vice-President/President-Elect, and will assume the duties of Advertising Manager president at the conclusion of the 2006 conference. Our new Second Vice- President/Program Chair is Patrick Feaster, who is familiar to many of you Martin Fisher as an expert on the early history of recorded sound. David Seubert has 4816 Foley Drive moved from a Member-at-Large position on the board to that of Secretary, Nashville, TN 37211-4826 [email protected] while Louise Spear has now assumed a position as Member-at-Large. Our Telephone: 615-731-1544 other new Member-at-Large is Richard Green, who is currently running un- opposed for President of IASA. I’m thrilled that Richard will be in a posi- tion to facilitate communication between ARSC and IASA. Last, but cer- Board of Directors tainly not least, is Steve Ramm, who graciously agreed to run for another Brenda Nelson-Strauss, President two-year term as Treasurer. Samuel Brylawski, First Vice-President/ In addition to the board, five judges were also elected to the ARSC President-Elect Blue Ribbon Awards Committee. David Hamilton will continue to serve as Patrick Feaster, Second Vice President/ the classical music judge, Dan Morgenstern as the jazz judge, Bill Schurk as Program Chair the popular music judge, and Dick Spottswood as a judge-at-large. Kip Lor- David Seubert, Secretary/Editor, ARSC Bulletin nell will be joining the committee as a judge-at-large. The committee recog- Steven I. Ramm, Treasurer nized winners of the 2004 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Recorded Sound Peter Shambarger, Executive Director Richard Green, Member-At-Large during the Austin conference, in addition to announcing winners of the 2005 Louise Spear, Member-At-Large Lifetime Achievement Award and Award for Distinguished Service to His- toric Recordings. The committee will announce the finalists for all other Claims or other notifications of issues not 2005 ARSC Awards at the end of June, with winners to be announced in the received must be sent to: fall Newsletter and recognized during the 2006 conference. Executive Director Once again I would like to thank all members of the board and the ex- PO Box 543 ecutive committee for their hard work over the past year on ARSC’s behalf. Annapolis, MD 21404-0543 Our record-breaking conference attendance and the frequency of postings [email protected] and detailed discussions on the ARSClist indicates that ARSC is becoming increasingly relevant to collectors, archivists, and audio engineers. I hope to work with all of you during the next year to build upon this momentum. Brenda Nelson-Strauss, ARSC President ARSC Newsletter 2 Number 108 • Summer 2005 www.arsc-audio.org Association for Recorded Sound Collections Conference (Continued from page 1) ARSC Elects New Board As always, ARSC members spent a lot of time in The results of the election of a new board of direc- the exhibits room, which remained lively throughout the tors were announced at the annual conference in Austin. conference. The following companies and individuals Sam Brylawski ([email protected]), now edi- were represented: tor of the Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Records at UC Santa Barbara, was elected to the position of First Audio Turntable Ltd. ● Chace Productions ● Joe Vice-President/President-Elect, where he will serve for Hickerson ● Mainspring Press ● Nauck’s Vintage one year before assuming the post of President. Richard Records ● Oxford University Press ● Revenant Records ● Routledge - Taylor & Francis ● Safe Green ([email protected]) of Library and Ar- Sound Archive ● University of Illinois Press chives Canada also joins the board as a Member-At- Large. Patrick Feaster ([email protected]) of Indi- The silent auction was also very successful, in ana University joins the ARSC board as Second Vice terms of items received and bidder interest. Sales totaled President/Program Chair. over $1,600, with all revenue going to ARSC’s general fund. Members re-elected to the board include Program Chair Louise Spear ([email protected]) of the For the first time, we passed out response cards to Grammy Foundation, who was elected to the other registrants; here are some of the comments received: Member-At-Large position. David Seubert • I find the eclectic mix one of the most rewarding ([email protected]), formerly Member-At- aspects of ARSC. Large, assumes the post of Secretary. Keeping ARSC’s • I’ve been to many conferences, and ARSC was finances in good hands is Steve Ramm by far the most beneficial and enjoyable. ([email protected]), who was elected to his seventh • The presentations tactfully balanced material for consecutive term as Treasurer.
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