Peer Reviewed
Posthuman Rap. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
“‘Now She Wanna Lick My Plum’: Azealia Banks and the Undoing of AntiBlackness,” Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies (forthcoming 2018).
“Azealia Banks, Seapunk and Atlantis: An Embattled Humanist Mixtape,” Shima 10:2 (2016): 81-93.
“Dancing Silhouettes: The Mobile Freedom of iPod Commercials,” Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Vol 2. Ed. Sumanth Gopinath and Jason Stanyek. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014: 311-36.
“From Barthes to Bart: The Simpsons v Amadeus,” Journal of Popular Culture, 46:3 (2013): 481-500.
Editor
Co-editor, Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Music Studies (forthcoming 2018). With Jason Lee Oakes.
Co-editor, “Sounding Global Southernness,” special issue of Journal of Popular Music Studies 27:4 (2015). With Ali Colleen Neff.
Co-editor, Journal of Popular Music Studies 24:3 (2012). Print and Online. With Karen Tongson and Gustavus Stadler (editors-in-chief), Anthony Kwame Harrison (editorial collective), Eric Weisbard (editorial board).
Academic
“Trap,” St James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture. Farmington, MI: Gale Cengage, forthcoming (2018).
Public Scholarship
“Teach Me How to Dougie Like a Mediocre White Man,” Sounding Out! (19 February 2018).
“This Land is Drone Land,” In Media Res (31 January 2018).
“Tis the Season to be Melancholy: Sia’s Everyday Christmas,” Musicology Now (25 December 2017).
“Benefit Concerts and the Sound of Self-Care in Pop Music,” Sounding Out! (26 June 2017).
“You Got Me Feelin’ Emotions: Singing Like Mariah,” Sounding Out! (17 April 2017).
“Malcolm Gladwell’s Bad Aesthetics,” Sounding Out! (10 October 2016).
“Trap Irony: Where Aesthetics Become Politics,” Sounding Out! (27 June 2016).
“IASPM-US Interview Series: Justin Williams, Rhymin and Stealin,” IASPM-US (21 April 2014).
Guest Editor, “The Wobble Continuum,” Sounding Out! 23 January-20 February 2014.
“Tomahawk Chopped and Screwed: The Indeterminacy of Listening,” Sounding Out! (20 February 2014).
“IASPM-US Interview Series: Mark Katz, Groove Music,” IASPM-US (30 April 2013).
“The First Time I Ever Heard: A Love Supreme,” IASPM-US (6 September 2012).
“As One with the Masses: Childish Gambino at Prospect Park,” IASPM-US (9 July 2012).
Editor, IASPM-US website, June 2011 – May 2013.
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- IASPM-US Interview Series (October 2011-May 2013)
- Co-editor with Elizabeth Lindau, Stop Making Sense: The Unintelligible in Popular Song (May 2013)
- Co-editor with Liana Silva (managing editor, Sounding Out!), Sonic Borders Virtual Panel (January-February 2013)
- The (Sometimes) Political Machinations of Popular Music (October-November 2012)
- The First Time I Ever Heard (September 2012)
“Erykah Badu,” Musicians and Composers of the Twentieth Century. Ed. Chris Moose. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2009.
“Chuck D,” Musicians and Composers of the Twentieth Century. Ed. Chris Moose. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2009.
Non-Academic
“Justin D Burton, PhD,” Carried in Our Hearts: The Gift of Adoption: Inspiring Stories of Families Created Across Continents. Edited by Dr. Jane Aronson. New York: Penguin, 2013: 296-99.
