Monographs
Popular Music in a Digital Music Economy: Problems and Practices for an Emerging Service Industry (Routledge, 2014) Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording (University of Minnesota, 2006) Academic Journals
"Listening to the Promise of a Better You: Considering the Instructional Record," Leonardo Music Journal Vol. 26 (2016) “From Background Music to Above-the-Line Actor: The Rise of the Music Supervisor in Converging Televisual Environments,” Journal of Popular Music Studies Vol. 25, Issue 3 (2013) “To Flood the Basin with Beethoven: The Promethean Aesthetics of Post World War II FM Concert Station in the United States,” Popular Music History Vol.5, No. 2 (2010) “A Skip in the Record of Media Studies: Why The Failure to Better Understand Popular Music as Media Matters So Much Today,” The Velvet Light Trap, A Critical Journal of Film and Television No. 64, 2009 "As if history were merely a record: The Pathology of Nostalgia and the Figure of the Recording in Contemporary Popular Cinema,” Music, Sound and the Moving Image, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2008 “Buried Under the Fecundity of His Own Creations: Rethinking The Stockpile, The Standing Reserve and the Recording Bans of the American Federation of Musician, 1942 to 1944 and 1948,” American Music, Summer 2004 “Which Voice Best Becomes the Property?: Tie-Ups, Intertexts and Versioning in the Production of My Fair Lady, “ Spectator: The University of California Journal of Film and Television Criticism, Vol. 17, No. 2, Spring/Summer 1997 “Reforming ‘Jackass Music’: The Problematic Aesthetics of Early Film Music Accompaniment,“ Cinema Journal, Fall Vol. 37, No. 1 1997 “Thou Shall Not Steal Television: Signal Theft in the Age of Information,” The Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film and Television No. 36, 1995 With Chicago Recorded Music Reading Group, “What Are We Listening To? What Are We Talking About?: Recorded Sound as an Object of Interdisciplinary Study,” Stanford Humanities Review, Vol.3, No. 2 Autumn 1993 |
Book Chapters
“Contents Expected to Speak for Themselves: A Preliminary Understanding of North American Self Service Record Retail,” The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Record Store: A Global History eds. John Dougan, Gina Arnold, Christine Feldman-Barrett, and Matthew Worley (Bloomsbury Publishing, July 2023) “The feeling of the moment: Music in the cinema of Sofia Coppola” for The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola ed. Suzanne Ferriss (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) “Toni Basil, ‘Mickey’ (1981)” for One-Hit Wonders: An Oblique History of Popular Music ed. Sarah Hill (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) “Off Beat: Popeye as auteur-blockbuster musical” for Refocus: On The Later Films and Legacy of Robert Altman eds. Justin Wyatt and Lisa Dombrowski (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) “Music supervision and branding in an era of ‘convergent advertising’” - Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising Style Guide ed. James Deaville, et. al. (Oxford University Press. 2021) “Female Treble: Gender, Record Retail and a Play for Space”, for Point of Sale: Analyzing Media Retail eds. Daniel Herbert and Derek Johnson (Rutgers University Press. 2020). (Peer Reviewed) Co-authored with D.E. Wittkower, “Why Legally Downloading Files is Immoral” for The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems (Fourth Edition) ed. Russ Shafer-Landau (Oxford University Press, 2017). "Modes of Production: The Value of Modal Analysis for Popular Music Studies", The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music, Eds. A. Bennett and S. Waksman (SAGE Publications Ltd., 2015) "Training the Listener: Stereo Demonstration Discs in an Emerging Consumer Market", Living Stereo: Histories and Cultures of Multichannel Sound, Eds. P. Theberge, K. Devine, and T. Everett (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015) “Lost in Transition: Popular Music, Adolescence and the Melodramatic Mode of Sofia Coppola”, Popular Music and the Post-MTV Auteur, Ed. A. Ashby (Oxford University Press, 2013) “Unions, Musicians’”, The Grove Dictionary of American Music, Second Edition, Ed. C. Garrett (Oxford University Press, 2013) “Uneasy Listening: Music, Sound, and Criticizing Camelot in Mad Men”, Mad Men: Dream Come True TV. Ed. G. Edgerton (I.B. Tauris, 2010) “For the Record: Interdisciplinarity, Cultural Studies and the Search for Method in Popular Music Studies,” Cultural Studies and the Questions of Method, Eds. J. Schwoch and M. White (Blackwell, 2006) “The Rise of the Radio Disk Jockey,” The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, Eds. R. Sisson, C. Zacher and A. Clayton (Indiana University Press, 2006) “Reforming ‘Jackass Music’: The Problematic Aesthetics of Early Film Music Accompaniment,” Movie Music, The Film Reader, Ed. K. Dickinson (Routledge, 2003) 
Academic Blogs
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Do You Want to Know a Secret?’: Mad Men, Episode 10, ‘Hands & Knees’,” Antenna, September 29, 2010 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/09/29/listen-do-you-want-to-know-a-secret-mad-men-episode-10-hands-knees/ “Report from SCMS: Friday, aka Humpday in LA,” Antenna, March 20, 2010 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/03/20/humpday-in-la-changes-for-the-scms-conference/ “Devo Now, More than Ever,” Antenna, February 23, 2010, http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/02/23/devo-now-more-than-ever/ “About the (w)hoopla: A few pedagogical thoughts about the Super Bowl ritual,” Antenna, February 8, 2010 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/02/08/about-the-whoopla-a-few-pedagogical-thoughts-about-the-super-bowl-ritual/ For the International Association for the Study of Popular Music “Music Supervision Taken Seriously: The Rise of the Music Supervisor in Converging Televisual Environments,” IASPM-US.Net July 25, 2013 http://iaspm-us.net/music-supervision-taken-seriously-the-rise-of-the-music-supervisor-in-converging-televisual-environments-by-tim-j-anderson/, For Sounding Out!, a weekly online publication, a networked academic archive, and a dynamic group platform bringing together sound studies scholars, sound artists and professionals, and readers interested in the cultural politics of sound and listening. "Learning to Listen: The Velvet Underground’s “Once Lost” LPs," Sounding Out!, Published on May 22, 2014 http://soundstudiesblog.com/2014/05/22/learning-to-listen-to-once-lost-lps-the-velvet-underground-in-a-not-so-private-soundscape/ For MediaCommons: A Digital Scholarly Network “In praise of lowly, unpurposeful and random activities: In response to the survey question, ‘How do we build digital cohorts and academic communities’,” MediaCommons, February 07, 2013 http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/question/how-do-we-build-digital-cohorts-and-academic-communities/response/praise-lowly-unpurposeful For In Media Res, A Media Commons Project, a project dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship. “Taylor Swift for Sale,” In Media Res, A MediaCommons Project, February 11, 2013 http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2013/02/11/taylor-swift-sale “If You Write Your Social Graph, Can You Take It With You?: A Question of Social Networks, Private Property and Market Leverage,” In Media Res, A MediaCommons Project, February 5, 2008, http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2009/02/01/social-graph-can-you-take-it-you, “In The Cloud and Out of Synch: The Question of Asynchronous Media and Media Studies,”, In Media Res, A MediaCommons Project, September 30, 2007, http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/videos/2007/09/30/in-the-cloud-and-out-of-synch-the-question-of-asynchronous-media-and-media-studies/ “Listening for ‘The Game’ in The Sound of Young America”, In Media Res, A MediaCommons Project, April 4, 2007, http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/videos/2007/04/04/listening-for-the-game-in-the-sound-of-young-america/ For Flow, a critical forum on television and media culture published biweekly by the department of Radio, Television, and Film at the University of Texas at Austin “Could You Feel Like They Feel?: Music Games, Listening and Fantasies of Identification.” Flow, Volume 5, Issue 8 http://jot.communication.utexas.edu/flow/?jot=view&id=2071 “Passion is No Ordinary Word.” Flow, Special Conference Issue, Fall 2006 http://jot.communication.utexas.edu/flow/?jot=view&id=2022 “At the End of the Day We're all "End Users".” Flow, Volume 4, Issue 9 http://jot.communication.utexas.edu/flow/?jot=view&id=1941 “’New Media’? 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