I am a cultural musicologist who studies popular music by examining the relationships between local music scenes and the national music industry. My current research centers on the Muscle Shoals, Alabama, music industry. This work utilizes integrative frameworks that draw upon musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, and complementary disciplines such as sociology, and American and African-American studies.听Ultimately, my work on Muscle Shoals fills lacunae within the larger narrative of popular music studies by assessing salient musical characteristics and interpreting the long-lasting cultural effects of this Alabama community. I have presented at numerous conferences including the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and the Society for Ethnomusicology. My published work appears in Southern Cultures, the New Grove Dictionary of American Music, and The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. I have also toured the United States, Canada, and Western Europe as a guitar technician and tour manager for Chris Whitley, and as a guitar, bass, and drum tech for David Gray.
听 听 听Monographs
Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals, University of Illinois Press, 2022听
听 听 听Peer-reviewed Articles
听鈥淭eaching Ethics in the Music Industry Curriculum,鈥 Proceedings of the 2019 International Summit of the Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association, 44-50; https://doi.org/10.25101/19.21
鈥溾楪uided by Commercial Motives鈥: Selling Songwriting,鈥 Journal of the Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association 18, no. 1 (2018): 13-35
鈥淭he Allman Brothers Band: Conveying the Blues Idea,鈥 Rock Music Studies, 5, no. 2 (2018): 105-123; doi.org/10.1080/19401159.2017.1416448
鈥淗elping Pave the Road to FAME: Behind the Music in Muscle Shoals,鈥 Southern Cultures 21, no. 3 (2015): 53-74 – http://www.southerncultures.org/article/helping-pave-the-road-to-fame/
听 听 Book Reviews
鈥淭he Musical Life of Nashville鈥檚 William Pursell,鈥 Notes, Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, 77 no. 1 (2020): 138-141.
鈥淢odern Records, Maverick Methods Technology and Process in Popular Music Record Production 1978-2000,鈥 Popular Music, 38 no. 3 (2019), 564-566; doi:10.1017/S0261143019000370
鈥淚 Hear a Symphony,鈥 Notes, Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, 75, no. 2 (2018): 272-275
鈥淭he Little Book of Music Law,鈥 Journal of the Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association 17, no. 1 (2017): 161-167
鈥淢uscle Shoals鈥 (film review), Journal for the Society of American Music 11, no. 3 (2017): 384-387
鈥淏ob Dylan: The Original Mono Recordings,鈥 American Music 32, no. 3 (2015): 371-375
听 听 Education Materials
Author and Revise Test Bank Questions. John Covach and Andrew Flory, What鈥檚 That Sound?, 5th edition, New York: W.W. Norton, 2018
Author and Revise Test Bank Questions. Kristine Forney, Andrew Dell鈥橝ntonio, and Joseph Machlis, The Enjoyment of Music, 13th edition, New York: W.W. Norton, 2017
Accuracy checks for Online Listening and Chapter Quizzes. Kristine Forney, Andrew Dell鈥橝ntonio, and Joseph Machlis, The Enjoyment of Music: Essential Listening, 3rd edition, New York: W.W. Norton, 2016
Author and Revise Test Bank Questions. Roger Kamien, Music: An Appreciation, 7th brief and 11th comprehensive editions, McGraw-Hill, 2016
Author and Revise Test Bank Questions. Kristine Forney, Andrew Dell鈥橝ntonio, and Joseph Machlis, The Enjoyment of Music: Essential Listening, 3rd edition, New York: W.W. Norton, 2016
Author and Revise Course Pack and Study Space Quizzes. Kristine Forney, Andrew Dell鈥橝ntonio, and Joseph Machlis, The Enjoyment of Music, 12th edition, New York: W.W. Norton, 2014
Author and Revise online assessment questions, chapters 1-7. Jeremy Yudkin, Understanding Music, 8th edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2015
Author and Revise online assessment questions for 68 listening guides. Mark Evan Bonds, Listen to This, 3rd edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2014
听 听 Encyclopedia Articles
鈥淢uscle Shoals, Music, and Race,鈥 and 鈥淪oul Music and Race.鈥 In The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Vol. 24, 鈥淩ace,鈥 ed. Thomas C. Holt and Laurie B. Green, 243, 249. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013
鈥淢uscle Shoals.鈥 In New Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed., ed. Charles Hiroshi 听听听听听听听听 Garrett, 611-612. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013
鈥淟earning the Music Industry at YouTube University,鈥 Music Entertainment Industry Educators Association Summit, Las Vegas, NV, March 2022
鈥淟egends and Legacy: Musical Tourism in Muscle Shoals,鈥 Music Entertainment Industry Educators Association Summit, virtual event, October 3, 2020
鈥淭eaching Ethics in the Music Industry Curriculum.鈥 Music Entertainment Industry Educators Association Summit, Nashville, TN, March 22, 2019
鈥2000 Years of Music (History): The Muscle Shoals Mystique.鈥 International Association for the Study of Popular Music, U.S., Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 9, 2019
鈥淕uided by Commercial Motives: Examining Early-20th Century How to Write 鈥楬it Song鈥 听听 Manuals.鈥 Music Entertainment Industry Educators Association Summit, Los Angeles, CA, March 23, 2018
鈥淗unting for R&B in the 鈥渟wamp bottoms鈥 with Jerry Wexler.鈥 International Association for the Study听 of Popular Music, U.S., Annual Conference, Cleveland, OH, February 25, 2017
鈥淪outhern Soul and Roots of Funk.鈥 Guest Lecture, Shenandoah Conservatory, Shenandoah University, February 21, 2017
鈥淢usic & Myth: The (Hi)Story of Muscle Shoals.鈥 Okra 2 Opera III: The Converse College Conference on Southern Culture, Spartanburg, SC, April 8, 2016
鈥淒on鈥檛 Try To Take Me To a Disco.鈥 Technology in Music: Production, Preservation, and Dissemination, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Invited panelist, May 22, 2014
鈥淭he Singing River: Music & Myth in Alabama.鈥 International Association for the Study of听 Popular Music, U.S., Annual Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, March 15, 2014
鈥淟and of 1000 Dances: How Muscle Shoals Got Back Its Groove.鈥 Society for American Music, Annual Conference, Lancaster, PA, March 8, 2014
鈥淭he Blues and Gospel Music.鈥 America鈥檚 Music, Ackland Film Forum, Ackland Art听 Museum, Chapel Hill, NC. Invited guest for post-film discussion, February 25, 2014
鈥淪omething in the Water: The Musical Shoals of Northwest Alabama.鈥 Society for 听 Ethnomusicology, Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, November 15, 2013
鈥淲omen & the Blues.鈥 Guest Lecture, Music Department, North Carolina State University, March 15, 2013
鈥淟ost Soul: Making Music in Muscle Shoals.鈥 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium, February 26, 2013
Awarded Prize for Best Humanities Paper Presentation
“A Shot of Rhythm and Blues: Defining the Muscle Shoals Sound.鈥 American Musicological Society, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 2, 2012
鈥淩&B and Soul.鈥 Guest Lecture, Music Department, North Carolina State University, October 12, 2012
鈥淓cho & Groove: Elements of the Muscle Shoals Sound.鈥 South Central Graduate Music Student Consortium, Annual Conference, Charlottesville, VA, September 29, 2012
鈥淪weet [Soul Music] Home [of] Alabama: Muscle Shoals, Music, and Race.鈥 Okra 2 Opera I: The Converse College Conference on Southern Culture, Spartanburg, SC, April 13, 2012
鈥淚鈥檒l Take You There: Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals.鈥 Society for American Music, Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC, March 16, 2012
鈥淚鈥檒l Take You There: Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoal.鈥 South Central Graduate Music Student Consortium, Annual Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, September 17, 2011
鈥淪elling Music for Profit: English Language How-to Write Song Texts.鈥 American 听 Musicological Society鈥揝outheast Chapter Meeting, Charlotte, NC, March 18, 2011
鈥淔ame by Association: The Legacy of Palestrina.鈥 American Musicological Society鈥 Southeast Chapter Meeting, Greensboro, NC, March 27, 2010
“Blues-Rock, Progressive: A Style Analysis of the Allman Brothers Band.鈥 American 听听 Musicological Society鈥揋reater New York Chapter Meeting, New York, NY, January 24, 2009
Research Fellowship
Center for Popular Music Studies, Case Western University, Cleveland, OH
Grant to conduct research at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library & Archive, 2016
Short-term Fellowship
Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South, University of Alabama
Grant to conduct research in the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library and the A.S. Williams III Americana Collection, 2015
Dissertation Completion Fellowship
The Graduate School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013
Lucas Miller Glass Summer Research Fellowship
The Graduate School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012
Research Grant
Rock and Popular Music Institute, Case Western University, Cleveland, OH
Grant to conduct research at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Archive, 2012
Summer Research Grant
Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Grant to conduct research in Muscle Shoals, AL, 2011
James W. Pruett Summer Research Fellowships in Music at the Library of Congress,Washington, D.C.
Department of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Processed the Morton Gould Collection and the Roy Harris Papers;
Conducted research in the Robert Sonkin Alabama/New Jersey Collection, 2010
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