Publications

Books

Dolly Parton's Jolene. Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024.

Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020.

Audible Traces: Gender, Identity, and Music. Co-edited with Elaine Barkin. Zürich: Carciofoli Press, 1999.

Articles

“Coat of Many Colors: Dolly Parton (1971),” guest essay for the Library of Congress, 2021.

“Within Sight: Three-Dimensional Perspectives on Women and Banjos in the Late Nineteenth Century,” 19th-Century Music 31 (2007): 131-63.

“A Resisting Performance of a Traditional Appalachian Murder Ballad: Giving Voice to ‘Pretty Polly,’” Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 9 (2005): 13-36.

“Peggy Seeger: From Traditional Folksinger to Contemporary Songwriter,” in Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music, ed. Ellie Hisama and Ray Allen (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2007), 252-87.

“Lost Honor and Torn Veils: A Virgin’s Rape in Music,” Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Marina Leslie (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1999), 165-78.

“Henry Lawes’ Setting of Katherine Philip’s Friendship Poetry in his Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues, 1655: A Musical Misreading?” Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas (New York: Routledge, 1994), 116-37; 2nd ed. (2006), 115-37.

“The Tenbury and Ellesmere Partbooks: New Findings on Manuscript Compilation and Exchange, and the Reception of Italian Repertoire in Elizabethan England,” Music & Letters 73 (May, 1992): 177-221. See also “Correspondence,” Music & Letters 74 (February, 1993).