Conference Papers

(selected abstracts)

• "Modern Motherless (and Fatherless) Children: Revisiting Samuel Floyd’s 'Sometimes' Trope." Paper to be given at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (Iowa City, April 2008).
• "Modern (Jewish, Electronic, and Gay) Motherless Children." Paper given at the spring meeting of the American Musicological Society, South-Central chapter (Lexington, March 2008).
• "Modern Motherless (and Fatherless) Children: Revisiting Samuel Floyd’s 'Sometimes' Trope." Paper given at the joint meeting of the Society of American Music and the Center for Black Music Research (Chicago, March 2006).
• "Turntablature: Notating a 'New Classical Era.'" Paper given at the joint meeting of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory (Seattle, November 2004).
• "Turntablature: Notating a 'New Classical Era.'" Paper given at the 2004 winter meeting of the American Musicological Society, Northern California chapter.
• "'I Flow Like a River When I Deliver': Defining and Mapping Rap's Verbal Styles." Paper given at the joint meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology and College Music Society (Miami, October 2003).
• "Turning the Tables on Hip-Hop Virtuosity: 'Legitimizing' the Art of Turntablism through Scratch Notation." Paper given at the fall meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US chapter (UCLA, September 2003).
• "'My Flow Frequency is at a Million Megahertz': Mapping Rap's Verbal Styles." Paper given at the 29th annual meeting of the Society for American Music (Tempe, February 2003).
• "'Arise You Gods!': Teaching , Preaching, and Rapping a Black Muslim Message." Paper given at the fall 2002 meeting of the American Musicological Society, Northern California Chapter.
• "(Re)hearing Rap Remixes." Paper given at Crafting Sounds, Creating Meaning: Making Popular Music in the U.S., conference sponsored by the Experience Music Project (Seattle, April 2002).
• "'Jazz at Night and the Classics in the Morning': Negotiating Tensions between Musical Traditions in African-American Short Stories." Paper given at the joint conference of the Society for American Music and Center for Black Music Research (Trinidad, May 2001).
• "Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding: 'Breaking Down' the Messages of Five Percent Rappers." Paper given at the 26th Annual Conference of the Society for American Music (Charleston, March 2000).
• "Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding: 'Breaking Down' the Numerological Messages of Five Percent Rappers." Paper given at Hip-Hop: A Cultural Expression, conference sponsored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and Cleveland State University Black Studies Program (September 1999).
• "Jazzing the Classics: Recomposition as Ambivalence in the Music of Duke Ellington." Paper given at the 3rd Annual meeting of the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium (Chicago, April 1999).
• "Text and Context: Musical Borrowing in American Popular Music." Paper given at the 43rd Annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology (Bloomington, October 1998).

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