My most recent publications

"Exploring Afro Cuban Percussion: A non-Latino Perspective," All About Rhythm: LP Education Newsletter, Issue 16 - Spring 2007. [download]

"Bata for One: adapting the batá ensemble to a single player," Percussive Notes, December 2006 [view]

"Introduction to Batá Drumming," World Percussion and Rhythm, Volume VII-Issue 2-Fall/Winter 2005 [site]

"Interview with John Amira," World Percussion and Rhythm, Volume VII-Issue 2-Fall/Winter 2005 [site]

Vodou Drumset: Traditional Afro-Haitian Rhythms Applied to the Drumset, Carl Fischer, 2002 [purchase]

The Drum and the Hoe, Harold Courlander, University of California Press, reprint 1986 [purchase]

Divine Horsemen, Maya Deren (McPherson and Company)

The Faces of the Gods, Leslie DesMangles (University of North Carolina Press)

American Odyssey: Haitians in New York City, Michel Laguerre (Cornell University Press)

The Uses of Haiti, Paul Farmer (Common Courage Press)

The Music of Santeriá, John Amira and Steven Cornelius (White Cliffs Media)

Santeriá, Migene Gonzalez-Wippler (Original Publications)

African Rhythm and African Sensibility, John Miller Chernoff (University of Chicago Press)

The Music of Africa, JH Nketia (W.W. Norton Press)

Mande Music, Eric Charry (University of Chicago Press)

Possession, Ecstacy, and Law in Ewe Voodoo, Judy Rosenthal (University Press of Virginia)

Flash of the Spirit, Robert Farris Thompson (Vintage Books)

Music and Trance, Gilbert Rouget (University of Chicago Press)

Black Music of Two Worlds, John Storm Roberts (Schirmer Books)

A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore, Harold Courlander (Marlowe and Company)

Miles: The Autobiography, Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe (Simon and Schuster)

Jazz Styles: History and Analysis, Mark Gridley (Prentice Hall)

Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play, Ben Watson (St. Martin's Griffin)