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.