Book

Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2020). DOI: 10.3998/mpub.9901441

Selected Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

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(co-authored with Rob Sloane) “Site-ing the Sounds: Discovering Australia and New Zealand’s Popular Music in the United States,” Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. (Shelley Brunt and Geoff Stahl, eds., Routledge 2018).

(co-authored with Shawn VanCour) “Eat What You Hear: Gustasonic Discourses and the Material Culture of Sound Recording,” Journal of Material Culture. (22:1) March 2017.

(co-authored with Eric Harvey) “Introduction: Recording Industries, Technologies and Cultures in Flux,” Creative Industries Journal. (8:2) Fall 2015.

“Record Men: Talent Scouts in the U.S. Recording Industry, 1920-1935,” Making Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries. (Derek Johnson, Derek Kompare, and Avi Santo, eds., NYU Press 2014).

“The Selznick Studio, Spellbound, and the Marketing of Film Music,” Music, Sound and the Moving Image. (4:1) Spring 2010: 77-98.

“The Recording Industry’s Role in Media History,” Convergence Media History (Sabine Hake and Janet Staiger, eds., Routledge 2009).

“Furniture Music: The Phonograph as Furniture,” Journal of Popular Music Studies. (18:3) December 2006: 301-324.

Media Criticism:

Antenna:

“On Radio: Holding on to Localism in Internet Radio” (February 5, 2013)

Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture:

“Chop Shop, Music Supervision, and the Recording Industry’s Possible Futures” (Sept. 24, 2010)

“We Think INSIDE the Box: CD Box Sets in the Download Era” (August 10, 2010; reposted as a “Flow Favorite,” May 19, 2011)

“Iggy Does Dinah!: Musical Performance on Talk TV” (July 2, 2010)

In Media Res:

“Guilt by Association: The Grammys, The Recording Industry and Representing Popular Music Culture” (September 9, 2011)

“Advertising Hillbillies: Genre, Authorship, and Audience” (November 28, 2007)

“Machine Memories: Recorded Sound as Memory” (October 3, 2007)

Spinning Indie:

“College Radio in Sin City: BEA Conference Report” (May 21, 2009)

Interviews, Panel Discussions and Book Reviews:

Book Review: David Suisman, Selling Sounds: the Commercial Revolution in American Music, in Cinema Journal (50:2), Winter 2011.

Book Review: Film Music: Critical Approaches, in Film Quarterly (57:4) Summer 2004.

(With Hector Amaya, Sarah Bowman, and Avi Santo) “An Interview with Rick Altman,” The Velvet Light Trap (51), Spring 2003.

(With Hector Amaya, Sarah Bowman, and Avi Santo) “Panel Discussion on Film Sound/Film Music: Jim Buhler, Anahid Kassabian, David Neumeyer, and Robynn Stilwell,” The Velvet Light Trap (51): Spring 2003.

Book Review: Pamela Robertson Wojcik and Arthur Knight, Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music, in The Velvet Light Trap (51) Spring 2003.

Music Criticism:

Perfect Sound Forever:

“Stuart Hyatt: Listening to the Anthropocene” (June 2020)

“American Primitive: Revenant Records’ Tenth Anniversary” (April 2006)

“We Can Figure This Out: Reintroducing the Vulgar Boatmen” (November/December 2003)