Publications

The following publications are organized chronologically.

Academic Publications

• War's Audiovisions: Music, Affect, and the Representation of Contemporary Conflict. 2013. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Wisconsin-Madison
• "Understanding the Pleasures of War's Audiovison." 2013. In The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media, Claudia Gorbman, John Richardson, and Carol Vernallis, eds.
• "The Soundtrack to War." 2013. In Virtual War and Magical Death: Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing, Neil Whitehead and Sverker Finnstrom, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• Review of Jonathan Pieslak's Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War. Forthcoming. Asian Music.
• "Madison." Forthcoming. The Grove Dictionary of American Music, Second Edition. Oxford University Press.
• "Music, Aesthetics, and the Technologies of Online War." 2011. In War, Technology, Anthropology, ed. Koen Stroeken. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
• "Black Rage, White Noise: The Jazz/Punk Connection." 2010. New Horizons in Jazz Research, ed. Michael Molasky. Tokyo: Artes.
• Hearing War, Seeing Music: Violence, Aesthetics, and Technology in Online War Music Videos. 2008. M.A. Thesis. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Liner Notes

• Notes to Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers. 2012.
• Notes to Harris Eisenstadt's The Soul and Gone. 2005.

Music Journalism

• What's that sound? — Feature story about the University of Minnesota's annual Spark festival. (Winter 2009)
• Wadada Leo Smith: The OFN Interview [part 2] — Second part of hour-long interview with Smith.
• Dropping Acid And Speaking Esperanto, Man!: The Return Of ESP-Disk — Review of the legendary label's not so triumphant return.
• Wadada Leo Smith : The OFN Interview [part 1] — Part one of an hour-long interview with trumpeter, improviser, composer Smith.
• Penguin Guide to Jazz, Seventh Edition — Book review of the now standard jazz guide.
• Albert Ayler: Holy Ghost — Box set review, co-written with Scott Hreha of One Final Note.
• Harris Eisenstadt: The Next Wave — Profile of drummer, improviser, composer Eisenstadt.
• 11th Annual Guelph Jazz Festival & Colloquium — Review of 2004 season.
• The Completist Syndrome, Part 2 : Bootlegs — An off the cuff look into the nature of unofficial recordings.
• The Completist Syndrome, Part 1: Official Recordings — A turn towards the fetishism of music collecting.
• Red Toucan : Then And Now — Red Toucan Records label retrospective.
• The Roaring Silence: In Memory of Elvin Jones — Threnody for the late Elvin Jones.
• Greetings: Poetry Journal — Essay review of poetry/music journal.
• Mixing it up at Northrop — Feature story about the 10th anniversary of the Northrop Jazz Season. (Winter 2004)
• The Healing Power of Music — Reflections on the power of Jazz as embodied by the music of Elvin Jones. Originally published in Modern Drummer magazine.