As a researcher she is best known for her 2007 book Girl Groups, Girl Culture: Popular Music and Identity in the 1960s and as numerous articles examining the intersections of race, gender, and music genre in the careers of artists such as Michael Jackson, Madonna, and the Beatles. This year she co-edited the volume Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music: Authenticity, Agency, Authority and she is writing a book on child musicians to be called Musical Prodigies and the Performance of Childhood.