"The Grateful Dead and Their World – Popular Music and the Avant-Garde in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1965-1975" is available for download from the McGill University Library. I am presently working on revising it for publication by the University of Michigan Press.
“Spring from Night into the Sun”: Metaphors of Dark and Light in the Music of the Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead Studies, vol. 4 (2019-2020), p. 16-39.
"Hippies," encyclopedia entry in Youth Cultures in America, eds. Simon J. Bronner and Cindy Dell Clark (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2016), p. 358-361.
The Field of Cultural Production and the Limits of Freedom in Improvisation
Critical Studies in Improvisation, vol. 9, no. 1 (2013).
"Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation"
Critical Studies in Improvisation, vol. 10, no. 2 (2015).
"This is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and Popular Culture"
Perfect Beat, vol. 17, no. 2 (2016).
"The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue: A Phenomenology of Music"
Critical Studies in Improvisation, vol. 9, no. 2 (2013).
"The Grateful Dead in Concert: Essays on Live Improvisation"
Critical Studies in Improvisation, vol. 6, no. 2 (2010).
Robert Schumann’s Wilhelm Meister Lieder, the Dresden Uprising
and the Development of his Late Style
Searching for the Sound: An Analysis of Phil Lesh's Electric Bass Style
On Improvisation and the Musical Work: An Ontology of Difference
The Transatlantic Blues: Django Reinhardt in France and the United States, 1920-1950
At the Edge of the Avant-Garde: On the Montreal Free Improvisation Scene
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