Books
I Hear a Symphony: Motown and Crossover R&B (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, forthcoming).
What’s That Sound: An Introduction to Rock and its History, 4th edition, co-authored with John Covach (New York: W.W. Norton, January 2015).
Articles
“Rock Narratives and Teaching Popular Music: Audiences and Critical Issues,” Journal of Music History Pedagogy (Vol. 5, No. 1, Fall 2014).
“Tamla-Motown in Europe,” in Brett Lashua, Karl Spracklen, Stephen Wagg, eds., Sounds and the City: Popular Music, Place and Globalisation (Hampshire: Palgrave, 2014), 113-27.
“Fandom and Ontology in the Beach Boys’ Smile,” in Philip Lambert, ed., Good Vibrations: Critical Perspectives on the Music of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, forthcoming).
“Marvin Gaye as Vocal Composer,” in Sounding out Pop: Analytical Essays in Popular Music, ed. John Covach and Mark Spicer (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), 63-98.
Encyclopedia Articles
“Motown,” in Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories that Shaped Our Culture, ed. Jacqueline Edmondson (Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2013), III: 723-7.
Entries for Aladdin, Casablanca, Commodores, Dakar, Donny Hathaway, Invictus, Keen, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Martha and the Vandellas, Lionel Ritchie Luther Vandross, Dinah Washington, Mary Wells, Jackie Wilson, and Bill Withers in Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition (2013).
“Black Pop Singers and Balladeers,” Encyclopedia of African American Music, ed. Emmett G. Price III, Tammy L. Kernodle, and Horace J. Maxile, Jr. (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2010), 731-742.
“The Beatles,” Encyclopedia of the Modern World, ed. Peter N. Stearns (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 1:370-71.
Reviews
Review of Albin Zak, I Don’t Sound Like Nobody: Remaking Music in 1950s America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), Journal of the Society for American Music 7 (2013): 203-5.
Review of Joel Rudinow, Soul Music: Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), American Music 30 (Spring 2012): 125-6.
Review-essay of Annie J. Randall, Dusty! Queen of the Postmods (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009); Michael Awkward, Soul Covers: Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007); and George Lipsitz, Midnight at the Barrelhouse: The Johnny Otis Story (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010); Bulletin of the Society for American Music 38, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 76-8.
Review of The Carbon Copy Building, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, music; Ben Katchor, text and drawings (Cantaloupe CA-21038, 2007), Journal of the Society for American Music 2 (November 2008): 593-95.
Review of Craig Werner, Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul (New York: Crown Publishers, 2004), in Notes 61 (March 2005): 752-54.
Music Production, Liner Notes and Journalism
“20 Feet From Stardom: Entertainment or History?” Musicology Now, February 21, 2014.
Co-producer (audio production, historical annotation and essay author), Marvin Gaye, Trouble Man [Expanded Edition] (Motown/Hip-O Select, B0017676, 2012).
Notes / Web
“The Sound of Young America,” co-authored with Harry Weinger, essay included in Motown Around the World (Motown/Hip-O Select B0013187, 2010). Notes / Web
“Remember How You Got Where You Are,” essay included in The Complete Motown Singles, vol. 11b (Motown/Hip-O Select B0012227-02, 2009).
Notes / Web
“Mercy, Mercy Me,” essay included in The Complete Motown Singles, vol. 11a (Motown/Hip-O Select B0011579-02, 2008).
Notes / Web