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** See Art Rosenbaum discuss his collection.”**
Monday, December 8, 2008
Contact: Georgia Strange, 706-542-1600, strange@uga.edu
Art Rosenbaum, UGA professor emeritus of art, is recipient of two Grammy nominations for his field music recordings
Athens, Ga.—The Recording Academy announced last week the nominees for its 2008 Grammy Awards. Art Rosenbaum, a professor emeritus of art in the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, is the recipient of two of those Grammy nominations.
In addition to his work as a UGA art professor, an artist, and a musician, Rosenbaum is also an accomplished folk music documentarian. The two Grammy nominations are for Rosenbaum’s four-disc box set titled “Art of Field Recording Volume I: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum.” The discs gather together recordings made by Rosenbaum starting with those he made in the 1950s while a student at Columbia University. (Photo at right by Peter Frey.)Rosenbaum’s recordings were nominated in the categories of Best Album Notes and Best Historical Album. The album’s liner notes are illustrated with Rosenbaum’s paintings and sketches along with photographs by Rosenbaum’s wife, Margo.
“Art Rosenbaum continues to pursue his diverse passions as an artist, teacher, scholar and musician with a formidable drive that is tempered only by his gracious manner. Speaking on behalf of his colleagues in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Professor Art Rosenbaum is most worthy of national recognition for his visionary role in securing unique cultural treasure,” says Georgia Strange, the school’s director.
Burkhard Bilger, writing in The New Yorker, says, “Art Rosenbaum is a folk revivalist of the old school. He believes that traditional ballads, blues, spirituals, and fiddle tunes are among the glories of American culture.”
The Grammy Awards ceremony is set for Feb. 8, and Rosenbaum plans to attend. “Art of Field Recording Volume I” is nominated in the Best Historical Album category along with “Classic Columbia, OKeh and Vocalion: Lester Young with Count Basie (1936-1940)”; “Debate ‘08: Taft and Bryan Campaign on the Edison Phonograph”; “Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette”; and “To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story.” In the Best Album Notes category, Rosenbaum is nominated in addition to Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition” with notes by Francis Davis.Volume II of “Art of Field Recording” is set for release this month by Dust-To-Digital, the company that co-produced and distributed Volume I.
After completing A.B. and MFA degrees at Columbia University, Rosenbaum taught at the University of Iowa before arriving at UGA in 1976.
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