Essays
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Journals
George Helm: A True Hawaiian Sounds Out Aloha 'Äina
Waka Kuaka: The Journal of the Polynesian Society
(2025) v134n3
Rock Music Studies
Special Issue: Steely Dan at 50 (2022) v9n1
L'Uomo
Special Issue: Musical Awakenings. Between Cultural Regeneration and Political Claims in Oceania
(2021) v11n1
Journal of the
Society for American Music
Special Issue on Music, Indigeneity, and Colonialism in the Americas (2019) v13n4
Journal of Popular Music Studies (2018) v30n1-2
Metal Music Studies
(2016) v2n3
Popular Music History
Special Issue on Heavy Metal
(2011) v6.1/6.2
Jazz Perspectives
Special Issue on the 1970s
(2010) v4n1
Anthologies
Taking the lead: Ritchie Blackmore and Tommy Bolin (re)shape heavy rock virtuosity
in
Who Do We Think They Are? Deep Purple and Metal Studies
edited by Andy R. Brown
2026 | Equinox Publishing
éĄæ—Hiromi ăźéłæ„œçæćă«ă€ă㊠(Desire: On Hiromi’s Musical Joy)
a sincere ă©ăăăăăăšăăăăăŸăă (thank you very much) to æ°žćšçæąš (Nagatomi Mari) and èŒȘ泶èŁä» (Wajima YĆ«suke) for their translation
in
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(Introduction to the Cultural History of Popular Music: Re-reading Post-War Japan)
edited by Wajima YĆ«suke and Nagatomi Mari
2024 | ăăă«ăŽăĄæžæż (Minerva Press)
in
Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South
edited by Nelson Varas-Díaz, Jeremy Wallach, Esther Clinton, and Daniel Nevárez Araújo
2023 | Lexington Books
From the Island of Berkeley: Hawaiian Belonging in California
in
California Dreaming: Movement and Place in the Asian American Imaginary
edited by Christine Bacareza Balance and Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns
2020 | University of Hawai'i Press
in
Playing For Keeps: Improvisation in the Aftermath
edited by Daniel Fischlin and Eric Porter
2020 | Duke University Press
in
Racism Postrace
edited by Roopali Mukherjee, Sarah Banet-Weiser, and Herman Gray
2019 | Duke University Press
in
AntiRacism Inc.: Why the Way We Talk about Racial Justice Matters
edited by Felice Blake, Paula Ioanide, and Alison Reed
2019 | Punctum Books
in
The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter
edited by Katherine Williams and Justin A. Williams
2016 | Cambridge University Press
in
Global Metal Music and Culture: Current Directions in Metal Studies
edited by Andy R. Brown, Karl Spracklen, Keith Kahn-Harris, and Niall W.R. Scott
2016 | Routledge
What Is This Black in Japanese Popular Music?
(Re)Imagining Race in a Transnational Polycultural Context
in
Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production: Two Haiku and a Microphone
edited by William H. Bridges IV and Nina Cornyetz
2015 | Lexington Books
Talk Shit, Get Shot:
Body Count, Black Masculinity, and Metal Music Culture
in
Modern Heavy Metal: Markets, Practices and Cultures
edited by Toni-Matti Karjaleinan and Kimi Kärki
2015 | Aalto University Press
in
The Global Sixties in Sound and Vision: Media, Counterculture, Revolt
edited by Timothy Scott Brown and Andrew Lison
2014 | Palgrave Macmillan
in
Yellow Power Yellow Soul: The Radical Art of Fred Ho
edited by Roger N. Buckley and Tamara Roberts
2013 | University of Illinois Press
Black Metal Soul Music:
StoneVengeanceand the Aesthetics of Race in Heavy Metal Music
in
Heavy Metal: Controversies and Countercultures
edited by Titus Hjelm, Keith Kahn-Harris, and Mark LeVine
2013 | Equinox Publishing
in
One World Periphery Reads the Other: Knowing the "Oriental" in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula
edited by Ignacio Lopez-Calvo
2009 | Cambridge Scholars Press
in
Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America
edited by Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
2007 | Duke University Press
Wiseguy Opera:
Music for Sopranos
in
This Thing of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos
edited by David Lavery
2002 | Columbia University Press
Other writings
2021 "Preaching From the Choir: Music Departments and Their Discontents," Journal of the Society for American Music 15.4
2020 "Music in a Time of Social Distancing and Public Intimacy: Lessons from Contemporary Japan," Journal of Popular Music Studies 32.4
2007 "Singing About Architecture: Disability and Language Diversity in IASPM-US," Journal of Popular Music Studies 19.1
2007 "Playing Guitar, Performing Hawaiian," Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter Spring 2007 issue