SELECTED PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS
- Dissertation: Children’s Music, MP3 Players, and Expressive Practices at a Vermont Elementary School: Media Consumption as Social Organization among Schoolchildren [pdf or Columbia Academic Commons]
- The new “tween” music industry: The Disney Channel, Kidz Bop, and an emerging childhood counterpublic A revised version of this article will appear in Popular Music [pdf]
- Earbuds are good for sharing: Children’s sociable uses of headphones at a Vermont primary school Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, edited by Jason Stanyek and Sumanth Gopinath. Oxford University Press. [An older version of this piece is available as a pdf or on scribd]
- Tinkering and tethering: Children’s MP3 players as material culture Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Musical Cultures, edited by Patricia Shehan Campbell and Trevor Wiggins. Oxford University Press. [An older version of this piece is available as a pdf or on scribd]
- Children’s music (encyclopedia article) Forthcoming in The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed., edited by Charles Hiroshi Garrett. Oxford University Press. [An older version of this piece is available as a pdf or on scribd]
- Music of poetry and poetry of song: Expressivity and grammar in vocal performance Ethnomusicology 51/3 (Fall 2007): 439–76. [pdf or scribd or JSTOR]
- Media consumption as social organization at a New England public school Paper presented at the 53rd annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Middletown, CT, October 27. (Awarded the 2009 Lise Waxer Prize from the Popular Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology, recognizing the most distinguished student paper in the ethnomusicology of popular music presented at the SEM annual meeting.) [pdf or scribd]
- Kidz Bop, “tweens,” and childhood music consumption Consumers, Commodities, and Consumption, the newsletter of the Consumer Studies Research Network (Fall 2008). [link or pdf]
- Call and Response—Revisited Reply to “Ethnomusicology and Empiricism in the Twenty-First Century,” by Judith Becker. Ethnomusicology 54 (2): 348–49. [pdf or scribd]
- MP3 Players, Music, and Children’s Material Culture Photo essay for Material World Blog [link]
BOOK REVIEWS
- Review of The Musical Playground: Global Tradition and Change in Children’s Songs and Games, by Kathryn Marsh Journal of Folklore Research (August 2009). [link]
- Review of Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet, by Kathryn C. Montgomery Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (April 2009). [link]
