Publications

• “Receiving, Embodying, and Sharing ‘Divine Wisdom’: Women in the Nation of Gods and Earths,” Encyclopedia of Women in Religions of the World, eds. Darnise Martin and Lillian Ashcroft-Eason (Praeger, forthcoming).
• “Turntablature: Notation, Legitimization, and the Art of the Hip-hop DJ,” American Music 25, no. 1 (spring 2007): 81-105.
• Review of Making Beats: The Art of Sample-based Hip-hop, by Joseph G. Schloss, Journal of Popular Music Studies 17, no. 3 (fall 2005): 361-65.
• "'Jazz at Night and the Classics in the Morning': Musical Double-Consciousness in Short Fiction by Langston Hughes." Popular Music 24, no. 2 (May 2005).
• Five Percenter Rap: God Hop's Music, Message, and Black Muslim Mission (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005).
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• "'The Duty of the Civilized is to Civilize the Uncivilized': Tropes of Black Nationalism in the Messages of Five Percent Rappers," In Understanding African American Rhetoric: Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations, Ronald Jackson and Elaine Richardson, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2003).
• Review of Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity by Adam Krims, Indiana Theory Review 21, nos. 1 and 2 (Spring / Fall 2000), 223-30.
• "Rock and Roll in the Fifties," and "Rock and Roll in the Seventies," for the Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory, and Criticism, Murray Steib, ed. (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000).
• Other Research: Special Consultant and Researcher for selected chapters of A History of Western Music¸ 7th ed. (New York: W. W. Norton, forthcoming).

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