Books
Translation with critical commentary of Cours de composition musicale, Volume I, by Vincent d’Indy (University of Oklahoma Press; in review).
The Reinventions of Ice Cube: From Gangsta Rapper to Movie Mogul. Under contract with Praeger Books.
Articles and Book Chapters
“The Invective of Vincent d’Indy, musicien artiste, on the Competitions of the Early 1900s,” Le Concours du Prix de Rome de musique (1803-1968), ed. Julia Lu and Alexandre Dratwicki (Editions Symétrie; in progress).
“The Kaleidoscope of Hip Hop Scholarship,” Contemplating Black Music: The Twenty-First Century and Beyond, ed. Samuel Floyd (University of California Press; forthcoming June 2007).
“Nadia Boulanger, Gabriel Fauré et le Conservatoire : visions d’une esthétique musicale au début des années 1900,” Au rebours de Lili et Nadia Boulanger, ed. Alexandra Laederich (Editions Symétrie; forthcoming December 2006).
“L’Art en Place: propos sur l’esthétique musicale de Vincent d’Indy,” Nouveaux regards sur Vincent d’Indy, ed. Fabien Michel (Editions Symétrie; forthcoming May 2007).
“Claude Debussy,” Encyclopedia of Europe 1789 - 1914, ed. Thomas Carson (Charles Scribner’s Sons; forthcoming, August 2006).
“Gender as Anomaly: Women in Rap,” The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest, ed. Ian Peddie (Ashgate Press, 2006), pp. 89-102.
“The Last Poets,” Encyclopedia of Black Studies, ed. Molefi Asante (Sage Publications, 2004), pp. 307-308.
“Contextualizing Rap: A Brief History of African American Music,” Rap and Hip Hop, ed. Jared Green (Greenhaven Press, 2003), pp. 25-35.
“Women in Rap,” Women and Music in America Since 1900, ed. Kris Burns (Greenwood Press, 2002), pp. 563 - 565.
“Debussy, Fauré, and d’Indy and Conceptions of the Artist: the Institutions, the Dialogues, the Conflicts,” Debussy and His World, ed. Jane Fulcher (Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 235 - 253.
“Contextualizing Rap,” American Popular Music: New Approaches to the Twentieth Century, eds. Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick (University of Massachusetts Press, 2001), pp. 173 -191.
“Spirituals and African-American Music,” Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Paul Finkelman (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001), Volume I, pp. 379 - 381.
“Fauré at the Conservatoire: Critical Assessments of the Years 1896 - 1920,” Regarding Fauré, ed. Tom Gordon (Routledge Press, 1999), pp. 97 - 118.
“Vincent d’Indy, Professor at the Conservatoire,” Echos de France et d’Italie, ed. Jean-Michel Nectoux (Buchet et Chastel, 1997), pp. 269 - 275.
“Teaching Rap: Musings at Semester’s End,” College Music Symposium (Volume 37/Fall 1997), pp. 65 - 71.
“Au-delà du scandale de 1905: propos sur le prix de Rome au début du XXe siècle,” Revue de musicologie (1996/2), pp. 245 - 267.
“Le Conservatoire et la Schola Cantorum: une rivalité resolue?” Le Conservatoire de Paris: des Ménus-Plaisirs à la Cité de la musique (1795 - 1995), eds. Yves Gérard and Anne Bongrain (Buchet et Chastel, 1996), pp. 235 - 259.
“Gabriel Fauré directeur du Conservatoire: les réformes de 1905,” Revue de musicologie (1984), pp. 199 - 228.
“L’enseignement de Gabriel Fauré au Conservatoire,” Etudes fauréennes (1983/84), pp. 29 - 35.
Reviews and Essays
Review of Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis (Pantheon Books, 1998) in Women and Music (Volume 3, 1999), pp. 90 - 94.
“Once More on Curriculum,” College Music Society Newsletter (April 2001), p. 1.
“Rap in Our Classrooms,” College Music Society Newsletter (April 1999), pp. 1 - 3.
Selected Recent Papers and Presentations
“Women in Rap: A Hip Hop Generation of Bitches and Hoes.” 48th Annual Meeting of the College Music Society. Quebec, Canada. November 5, 2005.
“Nadia Boulanger, Gabriel Fauré et le Conservatoire: visions d’une esthétique musicale au début des années 1900.” Colloque Nadia et Lili Boulanger. Académie musicale de Villecroze, October 23, 2004.
“Gender as Anomaly: Women in Rap.” 47th Annual Meeting of the College Music Society. San Francisco, November 4, 2004.
“Intersections of Art and Religion in the Work of Vincent d’Indy.” 44th Annual Meeting of the College Music Society. Santa Fe, November 16, 2001.
“Contrasts in Protest: Irish Pop and American Hip Hop.” International Meeting of the College Music Society. University of Limerick, July 6, 2001.
“L’esthétique de Vincent d’Indy et la voix des anges.” Colloque du 150e anniversaire de la naissance de Vincent d’Indy. Privas, France, June 30, 2001.
“Religion, Art, and Artistry in the Writing of Vincent d’Indy.” International colloquium, “Vincent d’Indy and His Times: Intersections of Music, Art, and Politics in Early 20th-Century France.” Hartford, May 12, 2001.
“Vincent d’Indy and Notions of the Divine.” Greater New York Chapter of the American Musicological Society. Princeton, April 21, 2001.
“Constructing the Perfect Curriculum: The Wisdom of Vincent d’Indy.” 42nd Annual Meeting of the College Music Society. Denver, October 15, 1999.
“Why Rap Matters.” 41st Annual Meeting of the College Music Society. Fajardo, Puerto Rico, October 23, 1998.
“The Making of a Rap Professor.” Northeast Chapter Annual Meeting, College Music Society. Albany, April 18, 1998.
“Rap in the Classroom.” 40th Annual Meeting of the College Music Society. Cleveland, November 14, 1997.
Invited Talks
“The Marketing of Women in Rap: A Hip-Hop Generation of Bitches and Hoes.” Birmingham Southern College, March 9, 2006.
“Women in Rap: A Hip Hop Generation of Bitches and Hoes.” Baruch College/CUNY, December 8, 2005.
“Gabriel Fauré’s Chamber Music: Stylistic Anomalies Amidst the isms of French Music at the fin-de-siècle.” Hartt School of Music, April 10, 2005.
“ ‘It’s All About the Benjamins’: Hip Hop and the Commodification of a Culture.” Keynote address for Black History Month. Occidental College, February 1, 2002.
“Musical Artistry in Early 20th-Century France.” Keynote speaker, Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the College Music Society, March 24, 2001.
“Teaching in the Life of a Scholar.” Forum sponsored by the Yale University Graduate School. March 31, 2000.
“Nadia Boulanger at the Conservatoire de Paris.” Pre-concert lecture at the Juilliard School. November 29, 1999.
“From the ‘Hood’ to the ‘Burbs’: The Sociocultural Implications of Rap.” The Center for the Humanities, University of Missouri. October 14, 1999.
“Gabriel Fauré’s Song Cycles and Music in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris.” Bowdoin College, April 7, 1997.