Online Essays

“One Wrong Note And—”. Soaring Twenties Social Club’s Symposium on the Topic of “Risk.” November 2023.

“Away.” Soaring Twenties Social Club’s Symposium on the Topic of “Home.” August 2023.

“I Sweat in Your Phone.” (August 2015.)

Articles and Essays

“When the Warrior Doesn’t Win.” In Warrior Queen: Answering the Call of the Morrigan (Girl God Books, 2021).

“‘I Am Not Making This Up’—Part 3: Days, Numbered.”  Open Space Magazine, Fall 2013/Winter 2014.

“In Search of Silence.”  Open Space Magazine, Fall 2008.

“‘I Am Not Making This Up!’—Part 2: ‘No, thanks, I’ll just listen,’ Or, a Reception of Sorts (with a couple of lies, some— boundary—issues, and a little too much information).” Open Space Magazine 8/9, Fall 2006/Winter 2007.

“’As if they didn’t hear the music,’ Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Mickey Mouse.”  Opera Quarterly, 2006 22 (1): 65-89. 

“Save You’re Money [sic], Spend Your Art: Cultivating Imaginative Space on Campus.”   Invited Essay, The Creative Campus, American Assembly, February 2004.

“’I Am Not Making This Up!’—Part 1: A Gender Identity Remix in the Form of Some Appropriations, Avowals, Denials, and Inquiries (Or, On Second Thought, a Palimpsest or Two).”  Open Space Magazine, Fall 2004.

“Music Drama on the Concert Stage: Voice, Character and Performance in Judith Weir’s ‘The Consolations of Scholarship,'” Cambridge Opera Journal, vol. 12, no. 1 (March 2000): 55-79.

“Making Mischief in the Melting Pot: The Eclectic Music of Don Byron,” in Akin Euba and Cynthia Tse Kimberlin, eds., Intercultural Music 3 (Point Richmond, CA: MRI Press, 2001).

“Difference or Silence? Women Composers Between Scylla and Charybdis,” Indiana Theory Review 17, no. 1 (Spring 1996), 77-85.

Reviews, Smaller Pieces

“Beyond Crossover: Akin Euba’s Intercultural Opera” (review of compact disc recording of the opera Chaka). Intercultural Musicology, October 1999.

Review of “The Music of ‘Star Trek’: Profiles in Style,” by Jeff Bond.  Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, Second Series, vol. 56, No. 4 (June 2000: 961-962).

Review of “Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music,” by Irwin Chusid. Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, Second Series, vol. 59, no. 1 (September 2002): 66-67.

Review Essay: “Audible Traces: Gender, Identity, and Music,” ed. Elaine Barkin and Lydia Hamessley.  Open Space Magazine, September 2002.

“Thank you, David Lewin.”  Editorial, Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Winter 2004).

Presentations

“And Word Betrayed Flesh: Dancing Opera, Defending Weakness, Dreaming Unknowing.” Conference: “The Agon of Opera and Dance.”

Colleagues, Collaborations, Recommendations

Rose Marie McSweeney’s visit to The Sociological Cinema:  “Gender Dynamics in a HelloFlo Ad”