, New York: DaCapo, 2000.
Bureaucratic Opposition: Challenging Abuses at the Workplace, New York: Pergamon Press, 1979 (
Republished Bureaucratic Opposition: Challenging Abuses at the Workplace, Merrifield, VA: Elsevier Press, 2013).
Book Chapters (partial List)
The Empowering Masculinity in British Heavy Metal, pp. 17-31 in Gerd Bayer (ed.), Heavy Metal Music in Britain, Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2009. Republished by Routledge, 2016.
Brothers in American Music, Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars and Stories That Shaped Our Culture, Jacqueline Edmondson (ed.), Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2013, pp. 161-164.
Metallica Kills, pp. 149-155 in Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself: Essays on Debut Albums, George Plasketes (ed.), Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.
Neil Peart versus Ayn Rand, pp. 273-285 in Rush and Philosophy: Heart and Mind United, Jim Berti and Durrell Bowman (eds.), Chicago: Open Book Press, 2011.
Pagan Metal, pp. 58-76 in Donna Watson and Andy Bennett (ed.), Pop Pagans: Paganism and Popular Music, Durham: Acumen, 2013.
The Globalization of Metal, pp. 34-59 in Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music Around the World, Jeremy Wallach, Harris M. Berger and Paul D. Greene (eds.), Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2011.
Appreciating Cover Songs: Stereophony, pp.243-251 in George Plasketes (ed.)
Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music, Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2010.
Roger Waters: Artist of the Absurd, pp.81-93 in
Pink Floyd and Philosophy: Careful with that Axiom, Eugene!, George A. Reisch (ed.), Chicago: Open Court, 2007.
Rock Protest Songs – So Many and So Few, pp.3-16 in
The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest, Ian Peddie (ed.), Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2006.
Creativity and Band Dynamics, pp. 187-199 in Eric Weisbard (ed.)
This is Pop, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Progressive Rock As Text: The Lyrics of Roger Waters, pp.91-109 in Kevin Holm-Hudson (ed.)
Progressive Rock Reconsidered, New York: Routledge, 2002.
Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture, New York: DaCapo, 2000.
Art vs. Commerce: Deconstructing a (Useful) Romantic Illusion, pp.56-69 in Karen Kelly and Evelyn McDonnell (eds.),
Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky: Music and Myth, New York: New York University Press, 1999.
The History of Rock's Pasts through Rock Covers, pp. 137-151 in Thomas Swiss, John Sloop and Andrew Herman (eds.),
Mapping the Beat: Popular Music and Contemporary Theory, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998.
Articles (partial list)
Just So Stories: How Heavy Metal Got Its Name A Cautionary Tale, Rock Music Studies 1, #1 (February 2014); 36-51.
Rock's Guitar Gods – Avatars of the Sixties, Archiv fuer Musikwissenschaft 70, 2 (July 2013): 139-154
All Singers are Dicks, Popular Music and Society 27, #3 (October 2004): 323-334.
Celebrity Worship as Weak Religion, Word & World 23, #3 (Summer 2003): 294-302.
On the Visual Constitution of Society: The Contributions of Georg Simmel and Jean Paul Sartre to the Sociology of the Senses, History of European Ideas 5, #4 (Spring 1984): 349‑62.
The Problematic of Marginality in Mexican Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 4, #3 (1981): 21‑25.
Other Publications