Publications

Book

The Sound of a Superpower: Musical Americanism and the Cold War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).

Journal articles

(With Giada Ferrucci). “Faith, Trauma, Resistance, and Resilience in the Revolutionary Songs of Civil War El Salvador,” Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 78, no. 1 (Spring 2025): 53-91. Published article (also available here in a Spanish translation); non-firewalled submitted version.

“The Benign American Exceptionalism of Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man,” The Musical Quarterly 103/3-4 (Fall-Winter 2020): 246-80.

“Musical Americanism, Cold War Consensus Culture, and the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Composers’ Exchange, 1958-1960,” The Musical Quarterly 97/3 (Fall 2014): 360-389.

“‘Vindication, Cleansing, Catharsis, Hope’: Interracial Reconciliation and the Dilemmas of Multiculturalism in Kay and Dorr’s Jubilee (1976), American Music 31/4 (Winter 2013): 379-419. Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award and the Kurt Weill Prize.

“Shaping the Policies of Cold War Musical Diplomacy: An Epistemic Community of American Composers,” Diplomatic History 36/1 (January 2012): 41-52.

“Aaron Copland and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy,” Journal of the Society for American Music 5/3 (2011).

Book chapters

(With Anne Searcy). “West Side Story in Russia.” In The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story. Edited by Paul Laird and Elizabeth Wells. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.“Russia.” In Bernstein in Context. Edited by Elizabeth Wells. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.

“Serialism in Canada and the United States” in Martin Iddon (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Serialism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023).

“Music Diplomacy in an Emergency: Eisenhower’s ‘Secret Weapon,” Iceland, 1954-1959,” in Jessica Gienow-Hecht (ed.), Music and International History in the Twentieth Century (New York: Berghahn Books, 2015).

“‘A Serious and Delicate Mission’: American Orchestras, American Composers, and Cold War Diplomacy in Europe” in Carol J. Oja, Anne C. Shreffler, Felix Rathert, and Wolfgang Meyer (eds.), Crosscurrents: American and European Music in Interaction (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013).

“Aaron Copland on Television: An Annotated List” in Carol J. Oja and Judith Tick (eds.), Copland and his World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).

“Transcript of Aaron Copland Meets the Soviet Composers” (ed.), in Carol J. Oja and Judith Tick (eds.), Copland and his World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).

Reviews

Review of James Wierzbicki, Music in the Age of Anxiety: American Music in the Fifties. Journal of Cold War Studies 19/4 (Fall 2017): 268-70.

Review of Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Music in America’s Cold War Diplomacy. American Music 34/1 (Spring 2016): 273-7.

Review of Orpheus in Manhattan: William Schuman and the Shaping of America’s Music Life by Steve Swayne. Journal of the Society for American Music 9/2: 232-5.

Review of Jazz Diplomacy: Promoting America in the Cold War Era by Lisa Davenport. Journal of the Society for American Music 7/2 (2013): 211-214.

Review of “The City” DVD (music by Aaron Copland). American Music 29/4 (Winter 2011): 536-538.

Collaborative Public Scholarship, Community Collaborations, Film Documentaries

Cancionero sobre Memoria Histórica Las Vueltas (e-book here, print version forthcoming San Salvador: Museo de La Palabra y la Imagen)

Asociación Sumpul – Western University Salvadoran Civil War Song Archive, online resource, in progress.

(With other team members), Memoria Viva: Fotografias y Testimonios Sobre la Vida en La Virtud y Mesa Grande, 1980-1992 / Memory Lives: Photographs and Testimonies About Life in La Virtud and Mesa Grande, 1980-1992, (San Salvador: Museo de La Palabra y la Imagen, Winter 2019).

Conducted research for Norberto Amaya [Songwriter], a 30-minute documentary film about 84-year old Salvadoran musician, Norberto Amaya, made by Juan Bello/Triana Media. Premiered April 2018.