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Robert Douglas Pruter (born July 1, 1944) is an American writer, mainly on soul and rhythm and blues music, and on sports. He was the rhythm and blues editor of ''Goldmine'' magazine from 1985 to 2006. == Career == In 1969, he was hired as an assistant editor on the ''New Standard Encyclopedia'', published by the Standard Educational Corporation. He became associate editor, social sciences, in 1974, and senior editor in 1979. He started writing separately-published articles on soul music in 1976, in outlets including the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' and ''Record Exchanger''. He became rhythm and blues editor for ''Goldmine'' in 1985, and in all has contributed over 500 articles to journals including the ''Illinois Entertainer'', ''The Reader'', ''Juke Blues'', and ''Living Blues''.〔( "Meet the commenters: Robert Pruter", ''Chicago Tribune'', February 1, 2013 ). Retrieved 1 July 2015〕 He has written liner notes on many soul and R&B musicians, including Jackie Wilson, Gene Chandler, Curtis Mayfield, and Dinah Washington, as well as biographies and overview chapters in reference works including ''The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated History of Popular Music'', ''The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music'', ''Encyclopedia Britannica'' (2000 edition), and the ''American National Biography''. Since the early 1990s he has also written in journals (in particular ''Journal of Sport History'') and in encyclopedias on the development of sport in the United States, especially on the history of high school sports.〔( Robert Pruter, ''Midland Authors'' ). Retrieved 1 July 2015〕 Professionally, he left Standard Educational Corp. in 1996, and worked for Planning/Communications and Charles D. Spencer & Associates before becoming reference librarian at Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois, in 2001. His published books include:〔( "Meet the commenters: Robert Pruter", ''Chicago Tribune'', February 1, 2013 ). Retrieved 1 July 2015〕 * ''Chicago Soul'', University of Illinois Press, 1991 ::The book won the Certificate of Excellence for scholarly works from the Illinois State Historical Society, 1992; and the ARSC Award for Excellence In Historical Recorded Sound Research from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, 1992.〔 * ''Blackwell Guide To Soul Recordings'' (editor), Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1993 * ''Doowop: The Chicago Scene'', University of Illinois Press, 1996 ::The book won the ARSC Award for Excellence In Historical Recorded Sound Research from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, 1997.〔 * ''The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control, 1880-1930'', Syracuse University Press, 2013 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Pruter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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