I write articles as well as books! Some of are journalistic, some are academic. Some are short, some are long, others are very long. Some are published by a formal publisher, some I just decide to publish here as I like the autonomy and speed. What follows is a selection of the more substantial articles I’ve written over the years. I’ve published some of these articles on Substack and Facebook; sometimes they prompt interesting discussions. If an article aligns with the Loft, Lucky Cloud or Palestine pages then you can find it there, not here.
Decolonising Disco: Counterculture, Postindustrial Creativity, the 1970s Dance Floor and Disco (2022) In Global Dance Cultures in the 1970s and 1980s: Disco Heterotopias, edited by Flora Pitrolo and Marko Zubak, 303-38. Bloomsbury.
David Mancuso and Louis Vuitton: Can They “Fall in Love”? (29 September 2022)
“Work that Body”: Disco, Counterculture and the Promise of the Transformation of Work (2022) In Music as Labour: Inequalities and Activism in the Past and Present, edited by Dagmar Abfalter and Rosa Reitsamer, 66-80. Routledge.
Life and Death on the Pulse Dance Floor: Transglocal Politics and the Erasure of the Latinx in the History of Queer Dance (2016) Dancecult, 8, 1, 2016, 1-25, https://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/dancecult/article/view/906/773 .
“Listen, and You Will Hear All the Houses That Walked There Before”: A History of Drag Balls, Houses and the Culture of Voguing (2011) Introduction to Voguing and the Gay Ballroom Scene of New York City, 1989-92. Photographs by Chantal Regnault. London: Soul Jazz.
The Forging of a White Gay Aesthetic at the Saint, 1980–84 (2011) Dancecult, 3, 1, 1-24.
Big Business, Real Estate Determinism, and Dance Culture in New York, 1980-88 (2011) Journal of Popular Music Studies, 23, 3, 288-306.
Disco and the Queering of the Dance Floor (2011) In “Queer Adventures in Cultural Studies”, Cultural Studies, 25, 2, 230-243.
Disco Madness: Walter Gibbons and the Legacy of Turntablism and Remixology (2008) Journal of Popular Music Studies, 20, 3, 276-329.
Connecting with the Cosmic: Arthur Russell, Rhizomatic Musicianship, and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-92 (2007) Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, on-line monograph, Liminalities, 3, 3, 1-85.
“I Want to See All My Friends At Once”: Arthur Russell and the Queering of Gay Disco (2006) Journal of Popular Music Studies, 18, 2, 2006, 145-68.
In Defence of Disco (Again) (2006) New Formations, 58, 2006, 128-46.
AIDS, the Problem of Representation, and Plurality in Derek Jarman’s Blue (1997) Social Text, 52-53.
Edward Said, Late Style and the Aesthetic of Exile (1997) Third Text, 38, 15-24.