Here is a list of my research publications (feel free to ask about stuff in preparation/production).
Books
🔓 Digital Flows: Online Hip Hop Music and Culture (Oxford University Press, 2024)
How Music Empowers: Listening to Modern Rap and Metal (Routledge, 2021)
Journal special issues
🔓 It’s Where You’re @: Hip Hop and the Internet, Global Hip Hop Studies, 2, no. 2 (co-edited with Raquel Campos Valverde) (2023).
Journal articles
🔓 Partying and Protesting with tUnE-yArDs’ »Water Fountain« [submitted 2015] (with Kjetil Klette Bøhler, Nick Braae, Andrei Sora and Tanja Veverka), Samples: Open Access Journal for Popular Music Studies, 22 (2024).
🔓 Hip-hop music producers’ labour in the digital music economy: Self-promotion, social media and platform gatekeeping (with Jason Ng), New Media & Society (2024).
🔓 Networking Global Hip Hop Knowledges (with J. Griffith Rollefson, Warrick Moses, Jason Ng, Patrick Marks aka Pataphysics, and Ophelia McCabe aka 0phelia), Ethnomusicology, 67, no. 3 (2023).
🔓 Hip-hop producer-hosts, beat battles, and online music production communities on Twitch (with Jason Ng), First Monday, 27, no. 6 (2022).
🔓 Listening to virtual space in recorded popular music, Journal on the Art of Record Production, 12. (2021).
🔓 Saturation Season: Inclusivity, Queerness, and Esthetics in the New Media Practices of Brockhampton (with Kai Arne Hansen), Popular Music and Society, Special Issue on Music, Digitalization and Democracy, 44, no. 5 (2021).
Breaking down the breakdown in twenty-first-century metal, Metal Music Studies, 5, no. 3 (2019).
Chapters in edited collections
Analyzing Hip-Hop Hacktivism and Automobility in Injury Reserve’s (2019) “Jailbreak the Tesla” (feat. Aminé) (with Justin Williams), in Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks, edited by William Moylan, Lori Burns, and Mike Alleyne (Routledge, 2022). Society for Music Theory Outstanding Multi-Author Publication Award Winner
Empowerment in rap music listening ft. Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Backstreet Freestyle, in On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements, edited by Nick Braae and Kai Arne Hansen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
Book reviews in journals
🔓 Posthuman Rap, by Justin Adams Burton, Popular Music, 38, no. 1 (2019).
🔓 Over and Over: Exploring Repetition in Popular Music, by Olivier Julien and Christophe Levaux, Analitica, 11 (2018).