Essays

Essays


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Journals

Rock Music Studies

Rock Music Studies

Special Issue: Steely Dan at 50 (2022) v9n1

L'uomo

L'uomo

Special Issue: Musical Awakenings. Between Cultural Regeneration and Political Claims in Oceania

(2021) v11n1

Journal of the Society for American Music

Journal of the

Society for American Music

Special Issue on Music, Indigeneity, and Colonialism in the Americas (2019) v13n4

Journal of Popular Music Studies

Journal of Popular Music Studies (2018) v30n1-2

Journal of Popular Music Studies

Journal of Popular Music Studies (2012) v24n3

Popular Music History

Popular Music History

Special Issue on Heavy Metal

(2011) v6.1/6.2

Jazz Perspectives

Jazz Perspectives

Special Issue on the 1970s

(2010) v4n1

Jazz Perspectives

Jazz Perspectives

(2008) v2n1


Anthologies

Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South

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

California Dreaming: Movement and Place in the Asian American Imaginary

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

Playing For Keeps: Improvisation in the Aftermath

in

Playing For Keeps: Improvisation in the Aftermath

edited by Paul Fischlin and Eric Porter


2020 | Duke University Press

Racism Postrace

in

Racism Postrace

edited by Roopali Mukherjee, Sarah Banet-Weiser, and Herman Gray


2019 | Duke University Press

AntiRacism Inc.

in

AntiRacism Inc.: Why the Way We Talk about Racial Justice Matters

edited by Felice Blake, Paula Ioanide, and Alison Reed


2019 | Punctum Books

Hapa Japan

'This Is Who I Am':

Jero, Young, Gifted, Polycultural

in

Hapa Japan

edited by Duncan Ryƫken Williams


2017 | Kaya Press

The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter

in

The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter

edited by Katherine Williams and Justin A. Williams


2016 | Cambridge University Press

Global Metal Music and Culture

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

Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production: Two Haiku and a Microphone

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

Modern Heavy Metal: Markets, Practices and Cultures

in

Modern Heavy Metal: Markets, Practices and Cultures

edited by Toni-Matti Karjaleinan and Kimi Kärki


2015 | Aalto University Press

The Global Sixties in Sound and Vision: Media, Counterculture, Revolt

in

The Global Sixties in Sound and Vision: Media, Counterculture, Revolt

edited by Timothy Scott Brown and Andrew Lison


2014 | Palgrave Macmillan

Yellow Power Yellow Soul: The Radical Art of Fred Ho

in

Yellow Power Yellow Soul: The Radical Art of Fred Ho

edited by Roger N. Buckley and Tamara Roberts


2013 | University of Illinois Press

Heavy Metal: Controversies and Countercultures

Black Metal Soul Music:

Stone Vengeance and 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 Press

One World Periphery Reads the Other: Knowing the

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

Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America

in

Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America

edited by Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu


2007 | Duke University Press

This Thing of Ours: Investigating the Sopranos

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

            "Playing Guitar, Performing Hawaiian," Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter Spring 2007 issue

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