Lion’s Share. Remaking South African Copyright
Duke University Press, 2022
Reason and Resonance.
A History of Modern Aurality
Zone Books, 2010
Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination.
South Africa and the West
Oxford University Press, 1999
Nightsong.
Performance, Power, and Practice in South Africa
University of Chicago Press, 1996
ISBN 0-226-21721-3
Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award, Arts Council of the African Studies Association
Honorable Mention, Chicago Folklore Prize
African Stars.
Studies in Black South African Performance
University of Chicago Press, 1991
ISBN 0-226-21724-8
Girkaa.
Une cérémonie d'initiation au culte de possession bòorii
des Hausa de la région de Maradi (Niger)
Dietrich Reimer Verlag Berlin, 1989
Out of print (download)
Music and the Islamic Reform in the Early Sokoto Empire
Kommissionsverlag Franz Steiner Wiesbaden, 1986
Out of print (download)
Die Macht des Wortes.
Priesgesang und Berufsmusiker bei den Fulbe des Diamaré (Nordkamerun)
Klaus Renner, 1980
Out of print (download vol. 1) (download vol. 2)
Booku.
Eine literarisch-musikalische Gattung der Fulbe des Diamaré (
Nordkamerun)
Dietrich Reimer Verlag Berlin, 1979
Out of print (download)