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| Freedom sounds: Civil rights call out to jazz and Africa I Monson Oxford University Press, 2007 | 584 | 2007 |
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| The other side of nowhere: Jazz, improvisation, and communities in dialogue D Fischlin, A Heble Wesleyan University Press, 2004 | 279 | 2004 |
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| African diaspora: A musical perspective I Monson Routledge, 2004 | 206 | 2004 |
| Doubleness and jazz improvisation: Irony, parody, and ethnomusicology I Monson Critical Inquiry 20 (2), 283-313, 1994 | 182 | 1994 |
| Oh freedom: George russell, john coltrane, and modal jazz I Monson In the course of performance: Studies in the world of musical improvisation …, 1998 | 110 | 1998 |
| Hearing, seeing, and perceptual agency I Monson Critical Inquiry 34 (S2), S36-S58, 2008 | 71 | 2008 |
| Black women and music: More than the blues EM Hayes, LF Williams, I Monson (No Title), 2007 | 68 | 2007 |
| Jazz improvisation I Monson The Cambridge companion to jazz, 114-32, 2002 | 58 | 2002 |
| Jazz as political and musical practice I Monson Musical improvisation: Art, education, and society, 21-37, 2009 | 47 | 2009 |
| Musical interaction in modern jazz: An ethnomusicological perspective IT Monson New York University, 1991 | 36 | 1991 |
| Forced migration, asymmetrical power relations and African-American music: reformulation of cultural meaning and musical form IT Monson The World of Music 32 (3), 22-47, 1990 | 33 | 1990 |
| Art Blakey’s African Diaspora I Monson African Diaspora, 333-356, 2004 | 32 | 2004 |
| Oral and written transmission in Ethiopian Christian chant KK Shelemay, P Jeffery, I Monson Early Music History 12, 55-117, 1993 | 32 | 1993 |
| What’s Sound Got to Do With It? Jazz, Poststructuralism, and the Construction of Cultural Meaning I Monson Creativity in performance, 95-112, 1997 | 21 | 1997 |
| Monk meets SNCC I Monson Black Music Research Journal 19 (2), 187-200, 1999 | 20 | 1999 |
| Revisited! The Freedom Now Suite I Monson Jazz Times 31 (7), 2001 | 19 | 2001 |
| Why jazz still matters G Early, I Monson Daedalus 148 (2), 5-12, 2019 | 18 | 2019 |
