Scholarship

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"Tempo, Diet Pills, and Mythology on the Grateful Dead" in Grateful Dead Studies Vol. 5 (2021/2022).

"Teaching (and Studying) the Music of the Grateful Dead" in Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy 9.1 (2022). 

Book Review of David Malvinni's Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation in Grateful Dead Studies Vol. 4 (2019/2020). 

"Wes Montgomery’s A Day in the Life: The Anatomy of a Jazz-Pop Crossover Album” in Jazz Perspectives 8.3 (2014)

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Interactive Listening: A New Approach to Music (with Peter Carney), now in its 5th edition (2015)

Rock Becomes Jazz: Interpretations of Popular Music by Improvising Artists in the 1960s - DMA Thesis (2010)

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UNCA Vinyl Party: "Workingman's Dead" - Lecture and listening session at Citizen Vinyl, Asheville, NC, September 28, 2021

"What Does Psychedelic Music Sound Like?" - Panel chair and presenter at the Popular Culture Association Conference, virtual, June 3, 2021

"Special Listening Session: Eyes of the World" - Moderator and co-presenter (with Jesse Jarnow) at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, virtual, February 27, 2021. 

"Beethoven the Improviser" lecture as part of the Department of Music Lecture Series at UNC Asheville, January 28, 2020. 

"Tempo, Diet Pills, and Mythology on The Grateful Dead" at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM, February 2019. 

“Chasing Banjo Joe: Jug Band Music and the Early Grateful Dead” at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM, February 2017

“The Beatles in 3: A Guided Listening Session” lecture as part of the Department of Music Lecture Series at UNC Asheville, October 25, 2016.

“You Can Never Tell: Understanding Grateful Dead Musical Eras Through the Keyboardists” at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM, February 2016

“The Development of ‘Playing in the Band’ as an Improvisational Vehicle, 1971-1972” at the So Many Roads: The World in the Grateful Dead Conference in San Jose, CA, November, 6, 2014

Interactive Listening presentation and teacher training for Duval County Public Schools, Jacksonville, FL

“Raising the Dead: A Guided Listening Session” panel presentation at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association conference in Albuquerque, NM, February 2014

“From Blues to Weirdness: The Evolving Roles of the Grateful Dead Keyboardists, 1965-70” - Southwest Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Conference, Albuquerque, NM, February 2014

Interactive Listening presentation at the Midwest Clinic, Chicago, IL, December 2013

“Wes Montgomery in the mid-1960s: The Creation of a Jazz-Pop Crossover Paradigm” at the Society for American Music Conference, Little Rock, AR, March, 7, 2013

“Hornsby/Hunter: Exploring the Boundaries of Popular Song in ‘Might as Well Be Me’” at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Conference, Albuquerque, NM, February 2012