“Come Go With Me to Freedom Land: Black Women Musicians and the Unexplored Sonic History of the March on Washington.” Hidden Harmonies: Women and Music in Popular Entertainment. ed. by Paula J. Bishop and Kendra Preston Leonard. (University of Mississippi Press).
“When and Where I Enter: Black Women Composers and the Advancement of a Black Postmodern Concert Aesthetic in Cold War Era America.” Colloquy Journal of the American Musicological Society vol 73, no. 3 (Fall 2020)
“Most of My Sheroes Don’t Appear on a Stamp: Contextualizing the Contributions of Women Musicians to the Progression of Jazz” The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900, ed. Laura Hamer (Cambridge University Press).
“Singing and Swinging in the Heartland: Black Women Musicians Making Music in the Midwest during the Jazz Age,” Staking Claims: The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow in the Heartland, University of Kentucky Press
“Black Women Working Together: The Politics of Validation in Jazz” Special issue of Black Music Research Journal vol. 34, no. 1 (Spring 2014).
“Work the Works: The Role of African American Women in the Development of Contemporary Gospel,” Readings in African American Church Music and Worship vol. 2, ed. by James Abbington, Chicago: GIA Publications, 2014. Also in Black Music Research Journal 26, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 89-109.
“Diggin’ You Like Those Ol’ Soul Records: Meshell Ndegeocello and the Expanding Definition of Funk in Post Soul America” American Studies (Fall 2013)
“Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Alice Coltrane and the Redefining of the Jazz Avant Garde.” John Coltrane and Black America’s Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music. Edited by Leonard Brown. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 73-98.
“I Wish I Knew What It Meant to be Free: Nina Simone and the Redefining of the Freedom Song of the 1960s” Journal of the Society for American Music 2, no. 3 (August 2008): 295-317.
“Super Sisters, Mean Mothers, and Big Mamas: The Lost History of Black Women & Jazz.” Textural Rhythms: Constructing the Jazz Tradition Contemporary African American Quilts. Edited by Carolyn Mazloomi. West Chester: Paper Moon Publishing, pp. 25-33.
“Having her Say: The Black Woman’s Use of the Classic Blues as Lament,” Women and the Worlds of Music: Past and Present Edited by Jane Bernstein. Boston: Northeastern University Press, pp. 213-231.
“’Sons of Africa, Come Forth’: Compositional Approaches of William Grant Still in the Opera Troubled Island,” American Music Research Center Journal 13 (2003): 37-59.
“This is My Story, This is my Song: The Historiography of Vatican II, Blacks Catholic Identity, Jazz, and the Religious Compositions of Mary Lou Williams,” U.S. Catholic Historian 19, no. 2 (Spring 2001): 83-94.
“Arias, Communist and Conspiracies: The Troubled History of Still’s Troubled Island,” Musical Quarterly 83, no. 4 (Winter 1999): 487-508.
Encyclopedia of African American Music:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/encyclopedia-of-african-american-music-9780313342004/
Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams
Named one of the 10 books highlighting racial injustice and resistance in jazz by WGBO.
https://www.wbgo.org/post/10-books-highlighting-history-racial-injustice-and-resistance-jazz#stream/0
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p085536
Music in American Black Life, 1945-2020
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=38hns4qm9780252044588
“My Song is My Weapon.” Black History Month Playlist. Smithsonian Folkways. https://folkways.si.edu/playlists/my-song-is-my-weapon-the-long-sonic-history-of-black-resistance
“Black Composers and Concert Artists.” Carnegie Hall Digital Timeline: History of African American Music.
https://timeline.carnegiehall.org/stories/black-composers-and-concert-artists
“You Gotta Believe in Something: The Pointer Sisters’ Pursuit of Liberation” NPR Turning the Tables Series.
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/962840768/the– hidden-legacy-of-the-pointer-sisters-genre-busting-pioneers-of-message-music
“Beyond the Chord, The Club, and the Critics: A Historical and Musicological Perspective of the Jazz Avant Garde,” introductory essay to the digital exhibit Creative Black Music at the Walker Art Center.
https://walkerart.org/collections/publications/jazz/creative-black-music-introduction
“A Woman’s Place: The Importance Of Mary Lou Williams’ Harlem Apartment,”
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/12/758070439/a-womans-place-the-importance-of- mary-lou-williams-harlem-apartment
“Understanding why Beyonce and Taylor Swift Get Compared.” NPR All Things Considered
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/23/1221455745/understanding-why-beyonce-and-taylor-swift-get-compared
“Evolution of R&B.” Tavis Smiley Show. KBLA 1580 AM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmHGumbL0jw
“Looking back on the music that accompanied the march on Washington 60 years Ago.” NPR Weekend Edition.
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/26/1196170868/looking-back-on-the-music-that-accompanied-the-march-on-washington-60-years-ago
“1A Record Club Remembers Tina Turner.”
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/01/1179565228/the-1a-record-club-remembers-tina-turner
“Inside Marjorie’s Parlour,” Sideways Podcast (BBC Radio)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6e8Gqd08gSwBjVlj2jiCjf?si=8a4ee2e59b3d497c
1A Record Club (NPR) Elvis Soundtrack.
https://the1a.org/segments/the-1a-record-club-elvis-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/
“Florence Price’s Chicago and the Black Female Fellowship.” BBC Radio 3
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014ymk?fbclid=IwAR0vgj4VkDSoKR3UQlZgrXeJj_lpujYx-1nzXFQ-zQzBhgDDBuvzkCgcAhk
“Freedom Singing at the March on Washington.” Sound Expertise Podcast.
https://soundexpertise.org/freedom-singing-at-the-march-on-washington-with-tammy-l-kernodle/
“Shamekia Copeland on Jazz Night in America” (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2021/07/22/1016580155/shemekia-copeland-modern-guardian-of-the-blues
Strange Fruit: A Brief History of Billie Holiday’s Tragic and Haunting Song. (CBC Radio) https://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/strange-fruit-a-brief-history-of-billie-holiday-s-tragic-and-haunting-song-1.5110561
“The Dvorak Statement,” (BBC Radio)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08qtdtx
“Nina Simone.” TRT World.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw9ELDa6iVA
“Objects that Changed the World: Mamie Smith and Crazy Blues” Miami University Alumni Association/Humanities Center Lecture Series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-CaNv7FQ6g
“Jazz and Gender in the Age of Black Lives Matter” panel discussion sponsored by the Harlem Jazz Museum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Hhz98AlJk
“’When and Where I Enter:’ Black Women, Black Music and the Reverberations Of Social Change in the American Concert Hall.” Paul J. Burgett Memorial Lecture Series, Gateways Music Festival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjp3mCtJALE
“American Music in the Time of Crisis” May Festival Conversations Series. http://www.mayfestival.com/concerts-and-events/2020-may-festival-season/in-conversation-american-music-in-times-of-crisis/.
“Musical Voices of the Civil Rights Movement” Detroit Symphony Orchestra> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzG_bNhnd-I
Including American Studies, Musical Quarterly, Black Music Research Journal, The Journal of the Society of American Music (JSAM), American Music Research Journal, The U.S. Catholic Historian, and the Journal of the American Musicological Society (JAMS).