Publications — Jessica A. Holmes, PhD

Musicians Featured in my Writing

pop singer Billie Eilish

Pop singer Céline Dion

Peer-Reviewed Articles & Book Chapters

Holmes, Jessica A. “Beats, Tactility, and the Politics of Deaf Representation in EDM.” In The Oxford Handbook of Electronic Dance Music, edited by Robin James and Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025.
Holmes, Jessica A. “Billie Eilish and the Feminist Aesthetics of Depression: Generation Z, Whisper Singing, and White Femininity.” Journal of the American Musicological Society Vol. 76, no. 3 (Autumn 2023): 785-830.
Holmes, Jessica A., and Michael Kinney. “Céline Dion and Cher’s Vegas Residencies: The Envoiced and Embodied Spectacle of Feminine Aging on the Las Vegas Stage.” In The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in Las Vegas, edited by Jacob Johnson, 112-131. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2023.
Holmes, Jessica A. “‘The Dress-Clad Out-Loud Singer of Queer-Punks’: Bradford Cox and the Performance of Disability.” Journal of the Society for American Music Vol. 14, no. 3 (August 2020): 1-30.
Holmes, Jessica A. “‘The Manic Pixie Dream Girl of the Synth-Pop World’ and her ‘Baby Doll Lisp’: Grimes, and the Disabling Logics of the Feminization and Infantilization of Lisping.” Journal of Popular Music Studies Vol. 31, no. 1 (March 2019): 131-156.
Holmes, Jessica A., and Nina Eidsheim. “‘A Song for You’: The Role of Voice in the Reification and De-Naturalization of Able-bodiedness.” Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies Vol. 4, no. 2 (Autumn 2019): 131-138.
Holmes, Jessica A. “Expert Listening Beyond the Limits of Hearing: Music and Deafness.” Journal of the American Musicological Society Vol. 70, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 171-220.
Holmes, Jessica A. “Singing beyond Hearing.” In “Colloquy: On the Disability Aesthetics of Music.” Journal of the American Musicological Society Vol. 69, no. 2 (Summer 2016): 542-548.

Journal Editorial

Holmes, Jessica A. and Nina Eidsheim, eds. Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies. Special issue on “Music, Disability, and Voice.” Vol. 4, no. 2 (Autumn 2019).

Writing in the Popular Press

Holmes, Jessica A. “Essential Music: Christine Sun Kim,” Flash Art, July 30, 2020.

Book Reviews