Dr. Kevin Mooney‘s book Texas Jazz Singer: Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond (2021) has won a Certificate of Merit in the 2022 Association for Recorded Sound Collections award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in Jazz. He will be among the winners in multiple categories recognized during an awards ceremony to be held during ARSC’s annual conference, to be held on May 20, 2023 in Pittsburgh, PA.
Dr. Mooney’s related talk, “Louise Tobin (b. 1918): A Texas Jazz Singer and the Last Surviving Musician from the Swing Era,” was selected to present at the East Texas Historical Association Conference in Nacogdoches on October 14, 2022.