Selected Publications
Neil Lerner

Co-editor, with Joseph N. Straus, of Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music (New York: Routledge, 2006).

“The Horrors of One-Handed Pianism: Music and Disability in The Beast with Five Fingers,” in Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music, edited by Neil Lerner and Joseph N. Straus (New York: Routledge, 2006), 75-89.

“Hoop Dreams,” “The Plow That Broke the Plains,” and “The River,” in Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, edited by Ian Aitken (New York and London: Routledge, 2006).

"Aaron Copland, Norman Rockwell, and the 'Four Freedoms': The Office of War Information's Vision and Sound in The Cummington Story (1945)," in Copland and His World, edited by Carol J. Oja & Judith Tick (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005), 351-377.

"'Look at That Big Hand Move Along': Clocks, Containment, and Music in High Noon," in South Atlantic Quarterly, 104/1 (Winter 2005), 151-173.

“Music, Musicians, and the War on Terrorism,” “Music, Civil War,” and “Music, World War I,” in Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront, edited by John P. Resch (New York: Macmillan, 2005).

“Nostalgia, Masculinist Discourse, and Authoritarianism in John Williams’s Scores for Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” in Off The Planet: Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema, edited by Philip Hayward (London: John Libbey, 2004), 96-108.

“Musical Texture as Cinematic Signifier: The Politics of Polyphony in Selected Documentary Film Scores,” in Film Music II, edited by Claudia Gorbman and Warren M. Sherk (Sherman Oaks, CA: Film Music Society, 2004), 1-25.

“Copland’s Music of Wide Open Spaces: Surveying the Pastoral Trope in Hollywood,” Musical Quarterly, 85/3 (Fall 2001), 477-515. [Honorable Mention, 2003 Katherine Singer Kovács Essay Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies]

“The Orchestration of Affect: The Motif of Barbarism in Breil’s The Birth of a Nation Score,” (with Jane Gaines) in The Sounds of Early Cinema, edited by Richard Abel and Rick Altman (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001), 252-68.

“Damming Virgil Thomson’s Music for The River,” in Collecting Visible Evidence, edited by Jane M. Gaines and Michael Renov (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), 103-15.