Queen of Noise: Yoko Ono’s Vocal Revolution
This book traces Yoko Ono’s radical vocal practice across experimental music, rock, punk, and popular culture, examining how scream, noise, and voice become sites of feminist and diasporic expression.
Selected Publications
“I Love You, Earth: Yoko Ono and Anohni’s Duet for a Transfeminist Planetary Futurity.” (Forthcoming)
“Turned Out Nice Again: Hauntological Revivalism in The Beatles Anthology and ‘Free as a Bird’ (1995).” Contemporary Music Review, special issue on Hauntology (2026)..
“Of Insects and Interstices: A Multispecies Analysis of Yoko Ono’s ‘Fly’ (1970) and Its Improvised Vocal Soundtrack.” Music and the Moving Image 19, no. 2 (2026): 3–25.
“Zoe-Powered Pop: Historicizing the Feminist New Wave of Lene Lovich and Nina Hagen.” Punk & Post-Punk 15, no. 1 (2026): 9–26.
“From ‘Bird Song’ to ‘Mother B/Earth’: The New Wave Vocal Becomings of Lene Lovich and Nina Hagen.” Punk & Post-Punk 15, no. 2 (2026): 179–197.
“A Witch’s Guide to the Underground: Sixties Counterculture, Dianic Wicca, and the Cultural Trope of the ‘Witchy Diva.’” In The Witch Studies Reader, edited by Jane Ward and Soma Chaudhuri. Duke University Press, 2025.
“The World Is Mine: Queer Affective Horizons in the Vocaloid Pop of Hatsune Miku.” In Singing Out: The Musical Voice in Audiovisual Media, edited by Catherine Haworth and Beth Carroll. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
“Scream from the Heart: Yoko Ono’s Rock ’n’ Roll Revolution.” In Countercultures and Popular Music, edited by Sheila Whiteley and Jedediah Sklower. Ashgate, 2014.
Research Interests
Popular music · voice and vocality · gender and sexuality · Japanese popular and experimental music · punk and new wave · sixties counterculture · noizu