Publications

Books
Chasing Sound: Recording Studios in America. Under contract to Johns Hopkins University Press.

Articles and Chapters

"Creativity in the Trading Zone: Sound Recording as Collaboration."  In Creativity: Technology and the Arts, ed. Hans-Joachim Braun (forthcoming).

“Engineering the Performance: Recording Engineers, Tacit Knowledge and the Art of Controlling Sound.” Social Studies of Science 34/5 (December 2004): 703-731.

“Recording: The Search for the Sound.” In The Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon, ed. André Millard (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), 105-122.

“From Polka to Punk: Growth of an Independent Recording Studio, 1934-1977.” In Music and Technology in the Twentieth Century, ed. Hans-Joachim Braun (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), 136-147.

"Chasing Sound: The Culture and Technology of Recording Studios in Postwar America." ICON: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology 6 (2000): 100-118.

“The Power of Image: Promotional Literature and Its Changing Role in the Settlement of Early Carolina.” North Carolina Historical Review 70 (1993): 365-400.

Book reviews for Technology and Culture, Enterprise and Society, and ICON.