Publications
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Books
Sound Streams: A Cultural History of Radio-Internet Convergence. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2020.
Here is UMP’s promo flier for Sound Streams
Selected Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters
“Researching Proto-Podcasts and Early Born-Digital Audio Formats.” Forthcoming in Saving New Sounds: Dispatches from the PodcastRE Project, eds. Eric Hoyt and Jeremy Wade Morris. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2020.
“Giant Pools of Content: Theorizing Aggregation in Online Media Distribution.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 59.1 (2019): 149-56. DOI: 10.1353/cj.2019.0070
“Play It Again: Rock Music Reissues and the Production of the Past for the Present.” Popular Music and Society 39.2 (2016): 151-74. DOI: 10.1080/03007766.2015.1036539
“The Ballad of Alan and Auntie Beeb: Alan Lomax’s Radio Programs for the BBC, 1943-1960.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 36.4 (2016): 604-26. DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2015.1105513
“Silenced Sounds: The State of Post-1940 Popular Music in United States Libraries and Archives.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 28.2 (2016): 224-47. DOI: 10.1111/jpms.12170
“Introduction: Podcasting: A Decade in the Life of a ‘New’ Audio Medium.” Journal of Radio & Audio Media 22.2 (2015): 164-69. DOI: 10.1080/19376529.2015.1082880
“Podcasting, Welcome to Night Vale, and the Revival of Radio Drama,” Journal of Radio & Audio Media 22.2 (2015): 179-89. DOI: 10.1080/19376529.2015.1083370
“‘Home Taping is Killing Music’: The Recording Industry’s 1980s Anti-Home Taping Campaigns and Struggles Over Production, Labor, and Creativity.” Creative Industries Journal 8.2 (2015): 123-45. DOI: 10.1080/17510694.2015.1090223
“Quality TV and the Branding of U.S. Network Television: Marketing and Promoting Friday Night Lights.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 32.5 (2015): 482-97. DOI: 10.1080/10509208.2015.1031624
(co-authored with Alyxandra Vesey, Eric Dienstfrey, and Booth Wilson) “Introduction (On Sound).” The Velvet Light Trap 74 (2014): 1-3. DOI: 10.7560/VLT7401
Short Online Reads
“AudioNet and the Origins of Online Content Aggregation.” In Media Res (February 12, 2020). http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/audionet-and-origins-online-content-aggregation
“Voices from Below: Storytelling Podcasts and the Politics of Everyday Life.” Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture 24.01 (October 2, 2017). http://www.flowjournal.org/2017/10/voices-from-below/
“Podcast Networks and Growing Professionalization of Podcasting.” In Media Res (May 21, 2015). http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2015/05/21/podcast-networks-and-growing-professionalization-podcasting
“On Radio: Radiolab and the Art of the Modern Radio Feature.” Antenna: Responses to Media & Culture (January 11, 2012). http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2012/01/11/on-radio-radiolab/
“Record Store Day, or Vinyl Record Day?” Antenna: Responses to Media & Culture (April 17, 2010). http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/04/17/record-store-day-or-vinyl-record-day/