ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4006-6640
Google Scholar: 406 citations, 7 h-index
Hearing Harmony: Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era, University of Michigan Press, Tracking Pop series, 2017, 330pp.
select reviews:
—Popular Music 38/1 by David Heetderks
—Journal of Music Theory 63/2 by Nathaniel Adam
—Cuadernos de ETNOmusicología 10 by Sergio Lasuén
“Is Key Real?” SMT-Pod 1/7, 2022
“Figuring Out Forensic Musicology: ‘Stairway to Heaven,’ ‘Taurus,’ and a Brief History of the Drooping Schema,” Die Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie Proceedings, 2021
“Implicit Influence of Veridical Knowledge on Familiarity for Chord Progressions,” third author, with Ivan Jimenez and Tuire Kuusi, Music & Science 3, 2020, pp. 1–16
“Notes on Playing with Play on Notes: Babbitt’s Music as Recompositional Puzzle,” Music Theory Spectrum 37/2, 2015, pp. 297–312
“Definitions of ‘Chord’ in the Teaching of Tonal Harmony,” Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie (Dutch Journal of Music Theory) 18/2, 2013, pp. 91–106
-translated into Spanish by Miguel Ángel Molina Carrillo as “Definiciones de acorde en la enseñanza de la armonía tonal,” Cuadernos de etnomusicología, 18/1, 2023, pp. 15–44
-Joseph P. Swain, “Taxonomy and Syntax in the Pedagogy of Harmonic Theory: A Response to Christopher Doll,” 18/2, 2013, pp. 107–109
-my response: “The Structure and Function of Tonal-Harmony Curricula: A Response to Joseph P. Swain,” 18/3, 2013, pp. 183–186
-Trevor de Clercq, “A Pop-Rock Theory for the Future: A Response to Christopher Doll and Joseph Swain,” 18/3, 2013, pp. 173–179
-Sergio Lasuén, “Synchronic versus Diachronic Approaches to Teaching Tonal Harmony: A Response to Christopher Doll,” 18/3, 2013, pp. 180–182
-Joseph P. Swain, “Second Response to Christopher Doll,” 18/3, 2013, pp. 187–188
Rock Music, Mark Spicer, ed., The Ashgate Library of Essays on Popular Music, 2011, pp. 243–274
“(A)I Did My Part,” Country Music and Philosophy: Honky Tonk Meditations (McFarland), Joshua Heter and Brett Coppenger, eds., 2026
“Starting the Twentieth Century with a Bang! A Lesson Plan for Whole-Tone Scales in Tosca,” The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy, Leigh VanHandel, ed., 2020, pp. 239–243
“Some Practical Issues in the Aesthetic Analysis of Popular Music,” The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches, Ciro Scotto, John Brackett, Kenneth Smith, eds., 2018, 3–14
Review of Ralf von Appen, André Doehring, and Allan F. Moore, ed., Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music (Ashgate), SAMPLES: Online-Publikationen der Gesellschaft für Popularmusikforschung 15, 2017
Review of Allan F. Moore, Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Recorded Popular Song (Ashgate), Journal of Music Theory 60/2, 2016, pp. 281–294
Review of Motti Regev, Pop-Rock Music: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity (Polity), Popular Music 35/2, 2016, pp. 286–288
“David Bowie’s Final Descent,” Musicology Now, American Musicological Society blog, 2016, http://musicologynow.ams-net.org/2016/01/david-bowies-final-descent.html
Review of The Million Song Dataset (Columbia University), Journal of the Society for American Music 18/1, 2014, pp. 121–123
“ABC-Paramount Records,” “Colpix Records,” “Doc Pomus,” “Epic Records,” “Modern Records,” “Harry Nilsson,” “Radiohead,” “Scepter/Wand Records,” “The Wrecking Crew,” Grove Music Online and The Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition, C. H. Garrett, ed., Oxford University Press, 2013
“The Mamas and the Papas,” entry in Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories that Shaped Our Culture, Jacqueline Edmondson, ed., ABC-CLIO, 2013, pp. 682–683
Review of Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past (Faber and Faber), Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 68/4, 2012, pp. 763–765
Review of Lucy Green, ed., Learning, Teaching, and Musical Identity: Voices across Cultures (Indiana), Popular Music 31/1, 2012, pp. 179–180
Reprint of “Transformation in Rock Harmony: An Explanatory Strategy,” Rock Music, Mark Spicer, ed., The Ashgate Library of Essays on Popular Music, 2011, pp. 243–274
Review of Radiohead, Special Collector’s Edition CDs (Parlophone), Popular Music and Society 33/5, 2010, pp. 727–728
“Rock’n’roll,” entry in The Encyclopedia of African American Music, Emmett Price, Tammy Kernodle, and Horace Maxile, eds., Greenwood Press, 2010, pp. 841–847
Review of Gordon Thompson, Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop, Inside Out (Oxford), Journal of Popular Music Studies 21/3, 2009, pp. 331–335