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TheAcadémie Charles Cros (Charles Cros Academy) is an organization located inChézy-sur-Marne, France, that acts as an intermediary between governmentcultural policy makers and professionals in music and the recording industry.
The academy is composed of fifty members specializing inmusic criticism, sound recording, and culture. It was founded in 1947 by Roger Vincent withArmand Panigel,José Bruyr,Antoine Goléa,Franck Ténot, and Pierre Brive – critics and recording specialists - and led by musicologistMarc Pincherle. It was named in honor ofCharles Cros (1842–1888), inventor and poet (friend ofArthur Rimbaud andPaul Verlaine) who was one of the pioneers of sound recording.
The academy continues to stay abreast of advances in technology, from the development of 78 RPMgramophone records toCDs,DVDs, playabletorrents and all other readable, transportable music formats available today.
Each year since 1948, the Academy has given out its grand prize, theGrand Prix du Disque, to recognize outstanding achievements in recorded music and musical scholarship. Prizes are awarded in the field of popular song, classical music, jazz, and other categories of recorded music, as well as for outstanding books ofmusicology. Categories vary from year to year, and multiple awards are often made in one category in the same year.
In 1969,Jimi Hendrix was the recipient of the Popular Music Prize in the 1969 Academie Charles Cros Awards.[1]
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