Editions Rodopi in Amsterdam published his book and CD, Performing Religion: Negotiating Past and Present in Kwaya Music of Tanzania in 2003. His book and CD, Music in East Africa, will soon appear in the Global Music Series published by Oxford University Press. Co-editor of Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology (Oxford University Press, 1997) and Mashindano: Music and Competition in Tanzania and East Africa (Mkuki na Nyota, 2000), he is also interested in the current "experimental" moment in ethnography. In 1996 he published a hypertext-multimedia article on Tanzanian kwaya music, "Kwayas, Kandas, Kiosks", in an issue of the journal Ethnomusicology Online devoted to "A New Generation of Ethnomusicologists," His teaching began at the University of Alberta and the Ohio State University before moving to the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University in 1998 where he is an assistant professor of Musicology (Ethnomusicology). For many years, the lyrics of a Louis Armstrong song have hung on his office wall:

"You made the river flow, the flowers blow / You made the weak and the strong / But Lord you made the night too long / You made the robin sing a song of spring / And me you gave a lonely song / That's why you made the night too long."