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“Brains, Breath and Voice: Emma Azalia Hackley, Pioneering African-American Pedagogue.” Journal of Singing 69, no. 2 (November/December 2012): 137-44.
“The Last Dramatic Instructional Innovation?: The Chalkboard and Music Education in an Historical Perspective.” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 34, no. 1 (October 2012): 62-80.
“The Possibility of Theomusicology: William Bradbury’s Esther, the Beautiful Queen.” Religion and the Arts 16, nos. 1-2 (March 2012): 1-28.
“For Their Musical Uplift: Emma Azalia Hackley and Voice Culture in African-American Communities.” International Journal of Community Music 4, no. 3 (2012): 237-56.
“Get the Pageant Habit: Emma Azalia Hackley’s Festivals and Pageants during the World War I Years, 1914-1918.” Popular Music and Society 34, no. 5 (December 2011): 517-56.
“If It’s in the Bible, It Can’t Be Opera: William Bradbury’s Esther, the Beautiful Queen, in Defiance of Genre.” American Music 29, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 1-34.
“‘In an Easy and Familiar Style’: Music Education and Improvised Accompaniment Practices in the U.S., 1820-80.” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 32, no. 2 (April 2011): 122-44.
“’An Opportunity to Rise’: Reinterpreting Esther, the Beautiful Queen.” Black Music Research Journal 30, no. 2 (Fall 2010): 241-72.
“‘Would that it were so in America’: William Bradbury’s Observations of European Music Educators, 1847-49.” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 24, no. 1 (October 2002): 5- 38.
“‘Wild and Soul-stirring’: William Bradbury’s Mountain Songs, 1849-52.” Popular Music and Society 25, nos. 1-2 (2001): 99-128.
“Music in Montgomery’s African-American Community, 1886-87: Amelia Tilghman as Performer, Journalist, and Teacher.” Alabama Review: A Quarterly Journal of Alabama History 53, no. 2 (April 2000): 112-39.
“‘As With Words of Fire’: Art Music and Nineteenth-Century African-American Feminist Discourse.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 24, no. 3 (Spring 1999): 603-32.
“Populism with Religious Restraint: William B. Bradbury’s Esther, the Beautiful Queen.” Popular Music and Society 23, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 1-30.
“The Vocal Teacher of Ten Thousand: E. Azalia Hackley as Community Music Educator, 1910-22.” Journal of Research in Music Education 47, no. 4 (Winter 1999): 319-30.
“The Early Years of African American Music Periodicals, 1886-1922: History, Ideology, Context.” International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 28, no. 2 (December 1997): 143-68.
“Transforming Textbooks: Reconsidering the Musical Canon and Music Curriculum.” Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy 5, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 32-43.
“’Pleasure from the Very Smallest Things’: Trichordal Transformation in Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Diaphonic Suites.” Music Review 53, no. 1 (February 1992): 32-46.
“Improvised Accompaniment Practices in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Music: William Bradbury’s Esther, the Beautiful Queen.” In The Past in the Present, 2 vols. László Dobszay, ed. Budapest: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, 2003, I:283-404.
“Art Music and Activist Discourse: The Case of the African-American Musician, Amelia Tilghman.” In Nineteenth-Century Music Studies. James Samson and Bennett Zon, eds. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Press, 2002, 335-44.
”Willie Mae Thornton.” In Powerful Black Women. Jessie Carney Smith, ed. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1996, 333-38.
“Integrating Women Musicians into the Music Curriculum: Are Textbooks Improving?” Proceedings, International Conference for Women in Higher Education. El Paso: The University of Texas, 1994, 216-25.
Encyclopedia of Alabama. S.v. “Amelia Tilghman” (2008). www.encyclopediaofalabama.org
Women and Music in America Since 1900, ed. Kristine H. Burns. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. S.v. “Emma Azalia Hackley,” 1:268-69.
Women in World History, eds. Deborah Klezmer, and Anne Commire. 16 vols. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications/Gale Group, 2000. S.v. “Crawford Seeger, Ruth,” 4:202-06; “Greenfield, Elizabeth Taylor,” 6:501-05; “McQueen, Thelma ‘Butterfly’,” 10:797-802.
American National Biography, eds. John A. Garraty, and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. S.v. “Powell, Maud,” 17:781-82.
Notable Black American Women, Book II, ed. Jessie Carney Smith. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. S.v. “Carroll, Vinnette Justine,” 81-83; “McGinty, Doris Evans,” 449-50; “Thornton, Willie Mae,” 641-43; “Tilghman, Amelia L.,” 643-47; “Ward, Gertrude Mae Murphy,” 676-80.
African American Women in the United States, ed. Dorothy C. Salem. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993. S.v. “Greenfield, Elizabeth Taylor,” 212-13; “Hackley, Emma Azalia Smith,” 219- 20; “Jamison, Judith,” 277-79; “McQueen, Thelma ‘Butterfly’,” 343-44; “Smith, Ada ‘Bricktop’,” 464-65.
Notable Black American Women, ed. Jessie Carney Smith. Detroit: Gale Research, 1992. S.v. “Hackley, E. Azalia,” 429-34; “McQueen, Thelma ‘Butterfly’,” 710-15; “Smith, Ada ‘Bricktop’,” 1033-37.