Teacher, Author, Musician

s.alexander.reed@gmail.com

Now Out:

Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music (Oxford University Press)

Laurie Anderson’s Big Science (Oxford University Press)

They Might Be Giants' Flood, a 33 1/3 Book (Bloomsbury)

The Birdwatcher’s Guide to Atrocity (LP)

SOL: A Self-Banishment Ritual (LP)

Madness & Extinction (LP)

“Order, Joy, Youth: Parade Aesthetics in Popular Music,” in the Journal of Popular Music Studies

"Punking the Bibliography: RE/Search Publications, the Bookshelf Question, and Ideational Flow," in Ripped, Torn and Cut:
Pop, Politics and Punk Fanzines from 1976 (Manchester University Press)

“’Let’s Make Love Before You Die’: ‘Warm Leatherette,’ Boredom, and the Invention of the 1980s,” in Mute Records: Artists, Business, History (Bloomsbury)

"The Musicological Occult, or Show Us the Dragons," in the Journal of Musicological Research

Review of Jonathan Pieslak’s Radicalism and Music in the Journal of Popular Music Education

Forthcoming:

Review of Victoria Malawey’s A Blaze of Light in Every Word: Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice in Music Theory Spectrum

Interviews about  Assimilate :

• WNYC’s Soundcheck    • Modern Mythology • IDieYouDie.com    • WAIF’s On the Way to the Peak of Normal    • DeadAudio.com