Invited Papers and Guest Lectures

• Invited panelist for "Issues in Popular Music," panel to be presented at the annual meeting of the Tennessee Music Educators Association (Nashville, April 2008).
• “Know your History.” Invited paper for "From Jazz to Hip-hop: The Influence of Black Music on Culture," panel presented as part of Black History Month celebrations at Austin Peay State University, 19 Feburary 2008.
• Invited panelist for “Using the Internet as an Ethnographic Resource for Music Scholarship: From Hip Hop Chats to Classical Music Blogs,” sponsored by the Society for American Music's Reference Resources Interest Group. Panel presented at the joint meeting of the Society of American Music and the Center for Black Music Research (Chicago, March 2006).
• "'We Can Rock Dancehalls and Carnegie Hall': Legitimizing the Turntable through 'Skratch' Notation." Invited paper given at the winter meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Southeast and Carribbean chapters (Boone, NC, 18 February 2006).
• "God Hop: Mass Mediating Black Muslim Theology." Invited paper given at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (Rochester, November 2005).
• "Five Percenter Rap." Invited talk for the University of Missouri, St. Louis, sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs (18 October 2005).
• "'We are the Mozarts of Tomorrow': Turntablism, Turntablature, and the Art of Legitimization," Invited talk for EthNoise, Ethnomusicology workshop at the University of Chicago (26 May 2005).
• Invited panelist for Feminism and Hip-hop, conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago (9 April 2005).
• "Who Cares if You Transcribe?: Problems of Hip-hop Notation and Analysis." Invited Lecture for T410, "Analysis of Popular Music," course taught by Mark J. Butler at Indiana University (March 2003).
• "Hip-Hop Music: Then and Now." Invited Lecture for "American Popular Music," course taught by David Pruett at Florida State University (June 2002).
• "God Hop." Invited paper for the Florida State University Musicology Colloquium Series (June 2002).
• "'Know Your History': What Hip-Hop Teaches us about Black History and Why We Should Listen." Invited keynote speech for Black History Month Convocation on Hip-Hop Music at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois (February 2002).
• "The Science of Numbers is How We Live: Creating Meaning through Numbers in Five Percenter Rap." Invited lecture for "Hip-Hop: Spirituality From the Underground," course taught by Dr. Quinton Dixie at Indiana University (February 2002).
• "Performers, Composers, and Technology." Invited Lecture for "Music History and Literature II," course taught by Dr. Jeffrey Magee at Indiana University (April 2001, April 2002).
• "Hip-Hop: Historic Roots and Modern Practices." Invited Lecture for "Black English," course taught by Dr. Felicia Roberts at Purdue University (March 2001).
• "'My Flow Frequency is at a Million Megahertz': Hip-Hop Flow and Musical Style." Invited paper for Purdue University Linguistics Department Lunch Series Lectures (March 2001).
• "Aspects of Hip-Hop." Invited lecture given for "American Music," course taught by Dr. Jeffrey Magee at Indiana University (November 2000).
• "Spiritual Doctrines in Five Percenter Hip-Hop." Invited lecture given for "Black Religion: From Slavery to Freedom," course taught by Dr. Quinton Dixie at Indiana University (April 2000).
• "Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding: 'Breaking Down' the Message of Five Percent Rappers." Invited lecture given for "Rap Music," course taught by Dr. Portia Maultsby at Indiana University (March 1999); revised as an invited paper for the Hans Tischler Birthday Celebration, Indiana University (February, 2000).
• "'Haven't I Heard That Somewhere Before?' Musical Borrowing and Pastiche." Invited lecture given for "Madonna Pastiche," course taught by Dr. Ingeborg Hoesterey at Indiana University (February 1999).
• "Race and Roll." Invited lecture given for "Survey of American Music," course taught by Dr. Jeffrey Magee at Indiana University (December 1998).

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