Representative scholarly writings

Make Sure Your Own Mask is Secure Before Assisting Others: Contingent Faculty as Care Workers,” Theory and Practice 46 (2021): 131-36.

Listening to Rap, Routledge 2018.

“Nielson Remixed: The ‘Trumpification’ of Hip-Hop,” Journal of Popular Music Studies 31/2 (June 2019): 51-62. (This links to my faculty page at UW, where you can find a PDF)

"The importance of bodily gesture in Sofia Gubaidulina's music for low strings," Music Theory Online 15.5 (October 2009).

"Enhancing musical performance,TRANS: Revista Transcultural de Música 13 (2009).

Invited review, Yosef Goldenberg, Prolongation of seventh chords in tonal music for the Journal of Schenkerian Studies Vol. 7, July 2013.

“An Exploration of Some Non-Tonal Pitch-Class Spaces with Implications for a Theory of Voice Leading,” Ph.D. dissertation, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2007.


Representative popular writings


Current projects

I'm presently working on a few projects, including the second edition of Functional Hearing (with Phillip Kloeckner; forthcoming Routledge), and some pieces on how white people “use” rap music.