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“What is Bluegrass Anyway? Category Formation, Debate, and the Framing of Musical Genre.” Popular Music 31, no. 3 (October 2012): 363-381.

"Time on the Crooked Road: Isochrony, Meter, and Disruption in Old-Time Country and Bluegrass Music," Ethnomusicology 55, no. 1 (2011): 55-76

"Banjo Transformations and Bluegrass Rhythm," Journal of Music Theory 53, no. 1 (2009): 137-162

Review, "Worlds of Sound: the Story of Smithsonian Folkways" and "The Never-Ending Revival: Rounder Records and the Folk Alliance," Journal of Popular Music Studies 21, no. 3 (2009): 310-315

"Birdcage Flights: A Perspective on Inter-Cardinality Voice Leading," Music Theory Online 15, no. 5 (2009)

Selected Performances

Mandolinist as part of a concert at the Garth Newel Music Center in Hot Springs, VA, July 5, 2014

Guitarist, mandolinist, banjoist, fiddler, and vocalist for a concert entitled “Trans-Atlantic Steel: Appalachian Strings and Zimbabwean Keys” combining Appalachian music with mbira music and Zimbabwean popular music; performed with Tony Perman at Grinnell College, October 6, 2012

Guitarist in a trio with Richard Greene and Peter Feldmann, performing bluegrass and old-time music on the main stage at the Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest and Folk Festival, May 15, 2010

Mandolinist and banjoist in Friday Noon Concert, performing music by Scarlatti and two premieres by Karl Kohn, April 16, 2010

Mandolinist at Ussachevsky Memorial Festival of electronic music, performing “Violin Phase” by Steve Reich, arranged for solo mandolin and computer, February 21, 2009

Mandolin, voice, and bowed banjo at the Ussachevsky Memorial Festival of electronic music, performing "BorderRadioX" by Paul Elwood, March 29, 2008