Lena, Jennifer C. and Richard A. Peterson. Forthcoming. "Politically-Purposed Music Genres,"
American Behavioral Scientist. Special isue: Globalization and Diversity in Cultural Fields: Comparative Perspectives on Music, Literature and Television.
Pachucki, Mark A., Jennifer C. Lena and Steven Tepper. 2010. "
Creativity narratives among college students: Sociability and everyday creativity."
The Sociological Quarterly. Vol. 51: 122-149.
Lena, Jennifer C. and Peter Levin. 2009.
"Valuing Art." Contexts Magazine. Vol. 8 (2): 60-62.
Lena, Jennifer C. 2009. Book review of
Hollywood Highbrow: From Entertainment to Art. (By Shyon Baumann. 2007.)
American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 114 (6): 1894-1896.
Lena, Jennifer C. and Richard A. Peterson.
2008
. "
Classification as Culture: Types and Trajectories of Music Genres."
American Sociological Review. 73 (5): 697-718 +online supplement.
Lena, Jennifer C. 2008. "
Voyeurism and Resistance in Rap Music Videos."
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. 5 (3): 264-279.
Lena, Jennifer C. and Daniel B. Cornfield. 2008. “
Immigrant Arts Participation in Nashville.” Pp. 147-169 in
Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America’s Cultural Life, ed. By William Ivey and Steven Tepper. New York: Routledge.
Lena, Jennifer C. 2007. Book review of
Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge. (By Keith Kahn-Harris. 2007.)
American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 113 (3): 927-929.
Lena, Jennifer C. 2007. "
Measures of Diversity: Lessons from Rap Music, 1979-1995."
Studi Culturali. Vol 1: 137-160.
Lena, Jennifer C. 2006. “
Social Context and Musical Content: Rap Music, 1979-1995.”
Social Forces. Vol. 85 (1): 479-495.
Reprinted in Lune, Howard, Enrique S. Pumar and Ross Koppel (eds.). 2009. Perspectives in Social Research Methods and Analysis: A Reader for Sociology. Sage.
Lena, Jennifer C. 2005. Book review of
Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture. (By Aaron A. Fox. Duke University Press. 2004.)
American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 111 (2).
Lena, Jennifer C. 2004. “
Meaning and Membership: Samples in Rap Music, 1979 to 1995.”
Poetics. Vol. 32, No. 3-4, pp. 297-310.
Lena, Jennifer C. 2003. “
Psyops, Propaganda and Gangsta Rap: Why is Saddam Hussein rapping for the CIA?”
Radical Society. Vol. 30, No.1, pp. 25-30.
Schindler, Amy and Jennifer Carroll Lena. 2000. “
Promise Keepers in Perspective: Organizational Characteristics and Men’s Religious Movements.” Pp. 209-224 in
Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion. Volume 11. Edited by Joanne Marie Greer and David O. Moberg. Stamford, Connecticut: JAI Press, Inc.
