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Writing
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ESSAYS, ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS
“Black Religious Placemaking in Hip Hop’s Spiritual Borderlands.”
Routledge Handbook of Religion and American Culture, 2025.
"Introduction: Soundscapes of American Gentrification."
Journal of Popular Music Studies, 2021. [co-authored with Alex Werth]
Soundscapes of American Gentrification.
Journal of Popular Music Studies, 2021. [special issue co-edited with Alex Werth]
"Holy Hip Hop."
Carnegie Hall History of African American Music, 2020.
“Black Star Lines: Home to Harlem.”
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, 2016.
“Hip-Hop and Religion: From the Mosque to the Church.”
The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop, 2015.
“Turning the Tables: Digital Technologies and the Remixing of DJ Culture.”
The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music and Sound Studies, 2014. [co-authored with Kate Levitt]
“Kingdom Business: Holy Hip Hop’s Evangelical Hustle.”
Journal of Popular Music Studies, 2012.
“Building ‘Zyon’ in Babylon: Holy Hip Hop and Geographies of Conversion.”
Black Music Research Journal, 2011.
“The Multi-Ringed Cosmos of Krumping: Hip Hop Dance at the Intersections of Battle, Media, and Spirit.”
Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader, 2008.
“Under The Blasphemous W(RAP): Locating the ‘Spirit’ in Hip-Hop.”
The Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology, 2006.
BOOKS
Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels
University of California Press, 2017
Meade, Michael (author) and Christina Zanfagna (editor). Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of the Soul.
Greenfire Press, 2010
POPULAR PRESS
"The Keepers of Flamenco: Tradition in Motion"
Stranger's Guide, 2020
"Transforming Shattered Grounds into New Beginnings: On Music and Destruction"
UC Press Blog, 2017
“Orienteering: The African Diaspora in Oriente, Cuba” [co-authored with Sean Barlow]
fROOTS, 2003
“Hugh Masekela: Now’s The Time"
The Beat, 2003
