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PUBLICATIONS :

Salsa in New York: a Musical Ethnography. Temple University Press, forthcoming.

"Salsa Romantica: an Analysis of Style, Sound Structure, and Contemporary Performance Practice." In Situating Salsa: Global Markets and Local Meanings in Latin Popular Music edited by Lise Waxer. Routledge, 2002.

"Miscellaneous Instruments in Jazz." In Jazz: A Reader's Companion. Oxford University Press, 2000.

"Law of International Affairs." Brøndums Danske Lov. Copenhagen: Brøndums, 2000.

Salsa in New York: a Musical Ethnography. Ph.D. Dissertation. Columbia University, 1999.

"Con Filin: the expression and swing of Salsa." Latin American Music Review. Vol. 19, no. 2, Fall/Winter 1998.

"The Clave of Jazz : A Caribbean Contribution to the Rhythmic Foundation of an African-American Music." Black Music Research Journal. Spring 1997: 59-80.

"Dangers of Straddling the Picket Fence: Notes from a Participant Observer." The Society for Ethnomusicology: Middle Atlantic Chapter Newsletter. Volume XV, Number 1, Spring 1996.

"Clave: The African Roots of Salsa." Kalinda!: Newsletter for the Center for Black Music Research Fall 1995. Reprinted in Clave (1) 2, 1998: 2-3.

Communication as Composition: A Historical Perspective on the Music of Gil Evans. Master's Thesis. Columbia University (1991).