Selected Publications
Monograph
2020. A Blaze of Light in Every Word: Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice. Oxford Series in Music Theory, ed. Steven Rings. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. Winner of the Wallace Berry Award given by the Society for Music Theory in 2023.
Open Educational Resource
2024. Multimodal Musicianship. Macalester College, April 1. https://pressbooks.macalester.digital/multimodalmusicianship/.
Refereed Book Chapters
Forthcoming. “’I Want to Be Flexible’: Voice, Technology, and Meter in Björk’s ‘Where Is the Line’.” In Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers, vol. 4, Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft, eds. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
2020. “Teaching Binary Form with Music of Underrepresented Composers.” In The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy, ed. Leigh VanHandel, 301–4. New York and London: Routledge.
2020. “Chromatic Mediants in Popular Music.” In The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy, ed. Leigh VanHandel, 350–53. New York and London: Routledge. This collection won the Outstanding Multi-Author Collection publication award given by the Society for Music Theory in 2022.
2010. “An Analytic Model for Examining Cover Songs and their Sources.” In Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom: Teaching Tools from American Idol to YouTube, ed. Nicole Biamonte, 203–32. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
Refereed Articles
2021. “Dissolution and a ‘Universe of Solutions’: Deliberate Disruptions, Ever-changing Repetition, and Vocal Prosody in Björk’s Vulnicura.” Circuit: musique contemporaines 33, no. 3 (December). https://doi.org/10.7202/1085811ar. Commissioned article.
2014. “Strophic Modification in Songs by Amy Beach.” Music Theory Online 20, no. 4 (December) http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.14.20.4/mto.14.20.4.malawey.html.
2014. “‘Find Out What It Means to Me’: Aretha Franklin’s Gendered Re-Authoring of Otis Redding’s ‘Respect’.” Popular Music 33, no. 2 (May): 185–207. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24736804. Winner of the 2015 Pauline Alderman Award for best article in feminist music scholarship given by the International Alliance of Women in Music.
2012. “Ear Training with the Music of Radiohead.” Indiana Theory Review 30, no. 2 (fall): 27–64. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24045402.
2011. “Musical Emergence in Björk’s Medúlla.” The Journal of the Royal Musical Association 136, no. 1 (May): 141–80. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41300169.
2010. “Harmonic Stasis and Oscillation in Björk’s Medúlla.” Music Theory Online 15, no. 6 (January) http://mto.societymusictheory.org/issues/mto.10.16.1/mto.10.16.1.malawey.html.
Book Reviews
Forthcoming. Review of Nancy Murphy, Times-A-Changin’: Flexible Meter as Self-Expression in Singer-Songwriter Music (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2023). Intégral 37 (spring 2024).
2023. Review of Mark Gotham, Kyle Gullings, Chelsey Hamm, Bryn Hughes, Brian Jarvis, Megan Lavengood, and John Peterson, Open Music Theory, version 2 (July 1, 2021) https://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/. Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 37, article 6. https://digitalcollections.lipscomb.edu/jmtp/vol37/iss1/6/.
2020. Review of Nina Eidshiem, The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018). MUSICultures 47: 213–15.