Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies, co-edited with Nichole T. Rustin. NC: Duke University Press, 2008.
Swing
Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s NC: Duke University Press, 2000
Works in Progress
Dance Floor Democracy: the Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen. NC: Duke University Press. Projected completion: January 2010.
An exploration of struggles over definitions of American democracy during World
War II as they played out on a famous and supposedly racially integrated dance
floor.
Chapters in Books
“’But this Music is Mine Already!’: White Woman as Jazz Collector in the Film, New Orleans (1947).” In Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies, ed. Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker, 235-66. NC: Duke University Press, 2008. (refereed)
Co-authored with Nichole T. Rustin, “Introduction.” In Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies, ed. Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker, 1-28. NC: Duke University Press, 2008. (refereed)
"“Jazz.” In African American Music: A History, ed. Mellonee V. Burnim and Portia K. Maultsby, 528-54. NY: Routledge, 2006. (invited)
“Bordering on Community: Improvising Women Improvising Women-in-Jazz.” In The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue, ed. Ajay Heble and Daniel Fischlin, 244-267. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan, 2004. (invited)
"When Subjects Don't Come Out." In Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity, ed. Sophie Fuller and Lloyd Whitesell, 293-310. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2002. (invited)
"Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band." (reprint) In Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History, ed. Vicki L. Ruiz and Ellen Carol DuBois. NY: Routledge, 3rd. ed. (2000), 466-477; 4th ed. (2007), 466-477. (invited)
Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band." Sung/Unsung: Jazzwomen (symposium booklet). Washington DC and Brooklyn, NY: Smithsonian Institution and 651, An Arts Center, 1996, 20-27. (invited)
Journal Articles
“Beyond the Brass Ceiling: Dolly Jones Trumpets Modernity in Oscar Micheaux’s Swing!” Jazz Perspectives 3, no. 1 (2009): 3-34. (refereed)
“When did jazz go straight?: A queer question for jazz studies,” Critical Studies in Improvisation / Etudes critiques en improvisation 4, no. 2 (2008) (refereed)
“Deconstructing the Jazz Tradition: The Subjectless Subject of New Jazz Studies.” The Source: Challenging Jazz Criticism 2, (2005): 31-46. (invited)
"'White Woman' as
Jazz Collector in the Film New Orleans (1947)," Institute for the Study
of American Music Newsletter 35, no. 1 (Fall 2005): 1-2; 13-14 (invited)
“Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies.” Current Musicology no. 71-73 (2001-2002): 375-408. (refereed)
"Uplift and Downbeats: What if Jazz History Included the Prairie View Co-eds"
(reprint) The Journal of Texas Music History 2, no. 2 (2002): 30-38. (invited)
"A Round Table on Ken Burn's Jazz." Journal of Popular Music Studies 13.2 (Fall 2001): 207-25. (With Geoffrey Jacques, Bernard Gendron, Scott DeVeaux, and Krin Gabbard) (invited)
“Uplift and Downbeats: If Jazz History Included the Prairie View Co-eds,” Jazz Research Proceedings, International Association of Jazz Educators (2001): 26-31. (invited
"The Prairie View Co-eds: Black College Women Musicians in Class and on the Road." Black Music Research Journal 19, no. 1 (1999): 93-126. (refereed)
"Nobody's Sweethearts: Gender, Race, Jazz, and the Darlings of Rhythm." American Music 16, no. 3 (1998): 255-288. (refereed)
"Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band." (reprint) Oral History Review 26, no. 1 (1999): 67-84. (invited)
"Female Big Bands, Male Mass Audiences: Gendered Performances in a Theater of War." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, no. 2, (1998): 64-89. (refereed)
"Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band." (reprint) Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, no. 1 (1997): 12-23. (invited)
"West Coast Women: A Jazz Genealogy," Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology 8, no. 1 (1996/1997): 5-22. (refereed)
"Working the Swing Shift: Women Musicians During World War II." Labor's Heritage 8, no. 1 (1996): 46-66. (refereed)
"'And Fellas, They're American Girls!' On the Road With the Sharon Rogers All-Girl Band." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 16, no. 2/3 (1996): 128-160. (refereed)
"Where the Blues and the Truth Lay Hiding: Rememory of Jazz in Black Women's Fiction." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 13, no. 2 (1993): 26-44. (refereed)
Research Study
A Feminist Perspective on New Orleans Jazz Women. A two-year research study for the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park (300-page report submitted September 30, 2004)
Reviews
Black Women and Music: More than the Blues, ed. Eileen M. Hayes and Linda F. Williams. Journal of Popular Music Studies 20, no. 3 (2008), 336-340
Soul on Soul: the Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams, Tammy L. Kernodle. Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 11 (2007): 96-100
Radical Harmonies (documentary), Dee Mosbacher. American Music 23, no. 1 (2005): 133-135
Styling Jim Crow: African American Beauty Training during Segregation, Julia Kirk Blackwelder. Journal of American History 91, no. 2 (2004): 673
Flying Higher: The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II, Wanda Langley. Journal of Military History 67, no. 2 (2003): 609-10
Swing, That Modern Sound, Kenneth J. Bindas. American Historical Review 107, no. 3 (2002): 901-2
Jazz Cultures, David Ake. American Studies 43, no. 2 (2002): 154-5
Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit, 1920-60, Lars Bjorn, with Jim Gallert. Michigan Historical Review 28, no. 1 (2002): 135-6.
The Thelonious Monk Reader, ed., Rob van der Bliek. CAML Review (Canadian Association of Music Libraries) 29, no. 3 (2001): 25-26
Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit, Suzanne E. Smith. American Studies 42, no. 2 (2001): 171-2
The New Negroes and Their Music, Jon Michael Spencer; Swing Changes: Big Band Jazz in New Deal America, David W. Stowe, and Playing the Changes: From Afro-Modernism to the Jazz Impulse, Craig Hansen Werner (review essay). Journal of Musicological Research 18, no. 3 (1999): 271-82
Encyclopedia Entries
"Melba Liston.". Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, ed. Susan Ware and Stacy Braukman. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2004
"Women," "Historiography" (essays), biographical entries, New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, ed. Barry Kernfeld. London: MacMillan, 2001
Selected Popular Writing
"Rocking the Cradle of
Jazz," Ms. Magazine 14, no. 4 (Winter 2004/2005): 68-71
Liner notes, Kit McClure Band, The Sweethearts Project: a Tribute to the International
Sweethearts of Rhythm (Red Hot Records RH 9004) 2004
"Women in Jazz," Ken
Burns Jazz website, PBS, January 2001
"A Hazy Look at Women in Jazz," New York Times (August 20, 2000): AR 29
"Jazzwomen Jam,"Jazz Now Magazine (monthly column) 1999-2000
