PUBLICATIONS
Articles and Book Chapters
2021 “Researching Black Congregational Music from a Migratory Point of View: Methods, Challenges, and Strategies.” In Studying Congregational Music: Key Issues, Methods, and Theoretical Perspectives, edited by Andrew Mall, Monique Ingalls, and Jeffers Engelhardt. New York: Routledge.
2016 “Performing Pannkotis Identity in Haiti.” In The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities, edited by Suzel Reily and Jonathan Dueck, 606–28. New York: Oxford University Press.
2015 “La Musique, le Pentecôtisme, et le travail spirituel dans les Lame Selès: A la recherche de connexions diasporique.” Bulletin du Bureau National d’Ethnologie d’Haiti, 110–27.
2014 “Haitian Djaz Diplomacy and the Cultural Politics of Musical Collaboration.” In Music and Diplomacy from the Early Modern Era to the Present, edited by Rebekah Ahrendt, Mark Ferraguto, and Damien Mahiet, 209–29. Palgrave Macmillan.
2014 “Singing like David Sang: Queerness and Masculinity in Black Gospel Performance.” In Readings in African American Church Music and Worship, Volume 2, edited by James Abbington, 715–25. Chicago: GIA Publications.
2010 “Performing Pentecostalism: Music, Identity, and the Interplay of Jamaican and African American Styles.” In Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World: Rituals and Remembrances, edited by Ifeoma Nwankwo and Mamadou Diouf, 41–54. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
2010 “Ethnomusicology and the African Diaspora.” In The African Diaspora and the Disciplines, edited by Tejumola Olaniyan and James Sweet, 41–54. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press.
2010 “The Spirit of David: Negotiating Faith and Masculinity in Black Gospel Performance,” Religion and Culture Web Forum, The Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion.
2010 “(Re)Voicing Race and Religion: A Response to Sarah Imhoff’s ‘The Man in Black: Matisyahu, Identity, and Authenticity,’” Religion and Culture Web Forum, The Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion.
2008 “Dancing around Dancehall: Pentecostalism, Popular Culture, and Musical Practice in Transnational Jamaica and Haiti.” In Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean, edited by Holger Henke, Karl-Heinz Magister, and Alissa Trotz, 63–99. Lanham: Lexington Books.
2008 “In Zora’s Footsteps: Experiencing Music and Pentecostal Ritual in the African Diaspora.” Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora 9, no. 1, 74–106.
2008 “The Weapons of Our Warfare: Music, Positionality, and Transcendence Among Haitian Pentecostals.” Caribbean Studies. 36, no 2, 23–64.
2008 “Music, Power, and Identity in the African Diaspora.” In What Should I Read Next? 70 University of Virginia Professors Recommend Readings in History, Politics, Literature, Math, Science, Technology, the Arts, and More, edited by Jessica R. Feldman and Robert Stilling, 221–24. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
2007 “Thoughts on the Intersection of Race and Faith in the Study of Popular Music.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 19, no. 1, 113–17.
2002 “‘Nou Kwe Nan Sentespri’ (We Believe in the Holy Spirit): Music, Ecstasy, and Identity in Haitian Pentecostal Worship.” Black Music Research Journal 22, no. 1, 85–125.
2000 “Musical Style and Experience in a Brooklyn Pentecostal Church: An ‘Insider’s’ Perspective.” Current Musicology 70, 33–50.
Public Scholarship
2020 “Why Black Gospel Music Still Matters despite the Rise of Contemporary Christian Music,” Chicago Tribune, March 2.
2020 “Does Kamala Harris’s Music Matter?” The Hill, September 12.
Book and Film Reviews
2020 Water Prayers for Bass Clarinet, The Vodou Horn: Asakivle Meets Austerlitz, and Dr. Merengue by Paul Austerlitz. Ethnomusicology 64, no. 3: 553–63.
2013 The Other Side of the Water: The Journey of a Haitian Rara Band in Brooklyn. (film) Yearbook for Traditional Music, 45, 288–89.
2007 Lining Out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans by William T. Dargan; Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age by Jerma A. Jackson; “Let the Church Church Sing!”: Music and Worship in a Black Mississippi Community by Therese Smith; and The Holy Profane: Religion in Black Popular Music by Teresa L. Reed. Ethnomusicology 51, no 3, 522–28.
2007 Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism by Michael Largey. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 75, no. 1, 162–65.
2007 Migration and Vodou by Karen E. Richman. The World of Music 1, 204–207.
Encyclopedia Articles
2008 “Crouch, Andrae.” African American National Biography, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Oxford African American Studies Center. Online.
2008 African American National Biography, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Oxford African American Studies Center. Online.
2005 “Globalization of Gospel” 139–41. “Gospel Choirs,” 144–47. “Gospel Quartets,” 156–160. “Singing in Tongues," 344–45. In Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music, edited by William McNeil. New York: Routledge.
2016 “Performing Pannkotis Identity in Haiti.” In The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities, edited by Suzel Reily and Jonathan Dueck, 606–28. New York: Oxford University Press.
2015 “La Musique, le Pentecôtisme, et le travail spirituel dans les Lame Selès: A la recherche de connexions diasporique.” Bulletin du Bureau National d’Ethnologie d’Haiti, 110–27.
2014 “Haitian Djaz Diplomacy and the Cultural Politics of Musical Collaboration.” In Music and Diplomacy from the Early Modern Era to the Present, edited by Rebekah Ahrendt, Mark Ferraguto, and Damien Mahiet, 209–29. Palgrave Macmillan.
2014 “Singing like David Sang: Queerness and Masculinity in Black Gospel Performance.” In Readings in African American Church Music and Worship, Volume 2, edited by James Abbington, 715–25. Chicago: GIA Publications.
2010 “Performing Pentecostalism: Music, Identity, and the Interplay of Jamaican and African American Styles.” In Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World: Rituals and Remembrances, edited by Ifeoma Nwankwo and Mamadou Diouf, 41–54. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
2010 “Ethnomusicology and the African Diaspora.” In The African Diaspora and the Disciplines, edited by Tejumola Olaniyan and James Sweet, 41–54. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press.
2010 “The Spirit of David: Negotiating Faith and Masculinity in Black Gospel Performance,” Religion and Culture Web Forum, The Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion.
2010 “(Re)Voicing Race and Religion: A Response to Sarah Imhoff’s ‘The Man in Black: Matisyahu, Identity, and Authenticity,’” Religion and Culture Web Forum, The Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion.
2008 “Dancing around Dancehall: Pentecostalism, Popular Culture, and Musical Practice in Transnational Jamaica and Haiti.” In Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean, edited by Holger Henke, Karl-Heinz Magister, and Alissa Trotz, 63–99. Lanham: Lexington Books.
2008 “In Zora’s Footsteps: Experiencing Music and Pentecostal Ritual in the African Diaspora.” Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora 9, no. 1, 74–106.
2008 “The Weapons of Our Warfare: Music, Positionality, and Transcendence Among Haitian Pentecostals.” Caribbean Studies. 36, no 2, 23–64.
2008 “Music, Power, and Identity in the African Diaspora.” In What Should I Read Next? 70 University of Virginia Professors Recommend Readings in History, Politics, Literature, Math, Science, Technology, the Arts, and More, edited by Jessica R. Feldman and Robert Stilling, 221–24. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
2007 “Thoughts on the Intersection of Race and Faith in the Study of Popular Music.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 19, no. 1, 113–17.
2002 “‘Nou Kwe Nan Sentespri’ (We Believe in the Holy Spirit): Music, Ecstasy, and Identity in Haitian Pentecostal Worship.” Black Music Research Journal 22, no. 1, 85–125.
2000 “Musical Style and Experience in a Brooklyn Pentecostal Church: An ‘Insider’s’ Perspective.” Current Musicology 70, 33–50.
Public Scholarship
2020 “Why Black Gospel Music Still Matters despite the Rise of Contemporary Christian Music,” Chicago Tribune, March 2.
2020 “Does Kamala Harris’s Music Matter?” The Hill, September 12.
Book and Film Reviews
2020 Water Prayers for Bass Clarinet, The Vodou Horn: Asakivle Meets Austerlitz, and Dr. Merengue by Paul Austerlitz. Ethnomusicology 64, no. 3: 553–63.
2013 The Other Side of the Water: The Journey of a Haitian Rara Band in Brooklyn. (film) Yearbook for Traditional Music, 45, 288–89.
2007 Lining Out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans by William T. Dargan; Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age by Jerma A. Jackson; “Let the Church Church Sing!”: Music and Worship in a Black Mississippi Community by Therese Smith; and The Holy Profane: Religion in Black Popular Music by Teresa L. Reed. Ethnomusicology 51, no 3, 522–28.
2007 Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism by Michael Largey. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 75, no. 1, 162–65.
2007 Migration and Vodou by Karen E. Richman. The World of Music 1, 204–207.
Encyclopedia Articles
2008 “Crouch, Andrae.” African American National Biography, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Oxford African American Studies Center. Online.
2008 African American National Biography, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Oxford African American Studies Center. Online.
2005 “Globalization of Gospel” 139–41. “Gospel Choirs,” 144–47. “Gospel Quartets,” 156–160. “Singing in Tongues," 344–45. In Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music, edited by William McNeil. New York: Routledge.