Peer-reviewed journals

• "Representing Japan: Japanese Hip-Hop DJs, the Global Stage, and Defining a 'National' Style." Popular Music 32/1 (2013): 35–50. PDF

• "Straight Outta Ichimiya: The Rise of a Rural Japanese Rapper." The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 11, Issue 5, No. 1, February 4, 2013.

• "The No Nukes 2012 Concert and the Role of Musicians in the Anti-Nuclear Movement." The Asia-Pacific Journal,  Vol 10, Issue 29, No. 3, July 16, 2012.

• "Reinterpretations of the son: Versions of Guillén's Motivos de son by Grenet, Caturla, and Roldán." Latin American Music Review 30/2 (Fall 2009): 115–58. 

• “New Technologies, Industrial Structure, and the Consumption of Music in Japan." Asian Music 39/1 (Winter/Spring 2008): 81-107.  How industry structure and policy have affected how consumers listen to and acquire music in Japan, using data gathered from a user survey and interviews with industry executives. Comparison with American consumers. Abstract
  

• “Lovers and Rulers, the Real and the Surreal: Harmonic Metaphors in Silvio Rodríguez’s Songs” Revista Transcultural de Música 10, 2006. Discusses the Cuban trovador’s  use of certain harmonic devices to depict affects in three stages of his career.  Abstract Full PDF with musical examples

• “Globalization and Japanese Creativity: Adaptation of Japanese Language to Rap.” Ethnomusicology 50/1 (Winter 2006): 1-36. Analyzes the interaction of Japanese prosody, rhythms, and rhymes in rap. Abstract

 Chapters in edited volumes 

• "The Musical Analysis of Hip-Hop." In Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop, ed. Justin Williams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

• "Hip-Hop in Japan." In Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop, forthcoming. 

• "Songs of Japanese Schoolchildren During World War II." In Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures, ed. Patricia Campbell and Trevor Wiggins (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). PDF

• "A Tale of Two Countries: Online Radio in the United States and Japan." In Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music and Sound Studies, ed. Sumanth Gopinath and Jason Stanyeck (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). 

• “Going mobile : the mobile Internet, ringtones, and the music market in Japan."  In Internationalizing Internet Studies, ed. Gerard Goggin and Mark McLelland (New York: Routledge, 2009), 316-332.  ISBN: 9780415956253. Development of the mobile internet in Japan; ringtones and mastertones as a driver of mobile and 3G diffusion; reactions of record companies to mastertones. Abstract

•  “Ring My Bell: Cell Phones and the Japanese Music Market." Music of Japan Today,  ed. E.Michael Richards and Kazuko Tanosaki (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, ISBN 9781847185624), 257-267. Abstract
  

• “Reinterpretaciones del son: Versiones de Motivos de son de Guillén por Grenet, García Caturla, y Roldán.” In El son y la salsa en la identidad del Caribe, ed. DaríoTejeda and Rafael Yunén.  Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Centro León, Instituto de Estudios Caribeños, Secretaría de Estado de Cultura, 2008.
  

• “Don Giovanni's Elvira:  Analysis of the Evolution of  a mezzo carattere." In Interpretare Mozart: Atti del convegno   ed. Mariateresa Dellaborra, Guido Salvetti, Claudio Toscani. Strumenti della Ricerca Musicale, 12. (Lucca, Italy: Libreria Musicale Italiana [LIM], 2007), 127-146.  ISBN 88-7096-503-2. Discusses the evolution of the tragicomic aspects of Elvira character from the Molière play to the Bertati-Gazzaniga opera to the Da Ponte-Mozart masterpiece, as expressed in the drama and the music.
  

• "Book Review: Susan Thomas' Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana's Lyric Stage (University of Illinois Press)." Latin American Music Review 33/1 (Spring/Summer 2012): 124–30.
  

Encyclopedia Entries

• "Canción romántica,” “Nueva trova,” “Silvio Rodríguez.” In Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music, ed. George Torres, 70–73, 286–88, 285. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishing, 2013. 

• "J-Pop." In Grove Dictionary of American Music, ed. Charles Garrett. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. In press.
  

• "Western music in Japan: The evolution of styles in children's songs, hip-hop, and other genres." Ph.D. Dissertation, CUNY Graduate Center, 2009.