Publications

Monographs:

Musical Portraits: The Composition of Identity in Contemporary and Experimental Music (Oxford University Press), 2017

Sounding Authentic: The Rural Miniature and Musical Modernism (Oxford University Press), 2014

Edited Volumes:

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music (Cambridge University Press), 2015

Representation in Western Music (Cambridge University Press), 2013, paperback 2015

Articles:

“Novelty, Wit and an Abundance of Ideas”: The Mid-Eighteenth-Century German Instrumental Cadenza as Interpretation, Ad Parnassum Journal, 2016

“‘He Will Knock Four Times’: Fate and the Timey-Wimey Echoes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Film, and Television, 2016

“The Beat Beat Beat of the Tom-Tom”: Cole Porter and the Exotic, A Cole Porter Companion (Illinois University Press), 2016

Molly Picon: Darling of Second Avenue, New York’s Yiddish Theater: From Bowery to Broadway (Columbia University Press), 2016

Jewish Music and Media of Sound Recording, Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music (Cambridge University Press), 2015

The “Yidishe Paganini”: Sholem Aleichem’s Stempenyu, the Music of Yiddish Theatre, and the Character of the Shtetl Fiddler, Journal of the Royal Musical Society. Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award, 2014

“Driven from Their Home”: Jewish Displacement and Musical Memory in the 1948 Movie Long Is the Road, Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture (Oxford University Press), 2014. Book was winner of the Ruth A. Solie Award from the American Musicological Society.

“Olden Melodies Return”: Memory in Joseph Achron’s “Hebrew Melody,” The Impact of Nazism on Twentieth-Century Music (Boehlau Verlag), 2014

Representation and Musical Portraiture in the Twentieth Century, Representation in Western Music (Cambridge University Press), 2013

“An Essential Expression of the People”: Interpretations of Hasidic Song in the Composition and Performance History of Ernest Bloch’s Baal Shem, Journal of the American Musicological Society, 2012

“The Hora Staccato in Swing!”: Jascha Heifetz’s Musical Eclecticism and the Adaptation of Violin Miniatures, Journal of the Society for American Music, 2012

“On the String in the Peasant Style”: Performance Style in Early Recordings of Béla Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances, Performers’ Voices Across Centuries, Cultures, and Disciplines (Imperial College Press), 2009 

Leaving Kazimierz: Comedy and Realism in the Yiddish Film Musical Yidl Mitn Fidl, Journal of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, 2009

Music of the “Folks-Neshome”: “Hebrew Melody” and Changing Musical Representations of Jewish Culture in the Early Twentieth Century Ashkenazi Diaspora, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2009

Composing Character in Musical Portraits: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and L’Aly Rupalich, Musical Quarterly, 2008

Lip-sync in Lipstick : 1950s Popular Songs in a Television Series by Dennis Potter, Journal of Musicological Research, 2008

Performing the Rural: Sonic Signifiers in Early Twentieth-Century Violin Playing, Before and After Music: Proceedings from the 10th International Congress of the International Project on Musical Signification, 2008

What’s in a Name?: C.P.E. Bach and the Genres of the Character Piece and Musical Portrait, Genre in Eighteenth-Century Music, 2008