Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2025) Theorizing Aesthetics in a Practical Musicology. In: The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies. Intellect Ltd, Fishponds, UK, pp. 51-64. ISBN 9781835951033 (In Press)

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320, Agawu, Kofi, Bhogal, Gurminder, Cavett, Esther, Dunsby, Jonathan, Horton, Julian, Monchick, Alexandra, Pace, Ian and Stobart, Henry (2023) Valuing the Surplus: Perspectives on Julian Horton's Article ‘On the Musicological Necessity of Music Analysis’, Musical Quarterly, 3/i–ii, pp. 62–104. Music Analysis, 42 (3). pp. 412-471. ISSN 0262-5245

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2022) Le Grand Kallé and African jazz—“Indépendance Cha Cha” (1960). In: One-Track Mind: Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song. Taylor and Francis, Routledge, London, UK, pp. 11-26. ISBN 9781003093206

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2022) Practical musicology. 21st Century Music Practices. Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, New York. ISBN 9781501357794

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2022) The space of the record: something happening somewhere. In: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music, Space and Place. Bloomsbury handbooks. Bloomsbury Academic Press, New York, pp. 229-240. ISBN 978-1-5013-3628-7

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2020) Studio practice and organization in rock music. In: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research. Bloomsbury handbooks. Bloomsbury Academic Press, New York. ISBN 9781501330469

Exarchos, Michail ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1045-3540 and Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2020) Audio processing. In: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music Production. Bloomsbury handbooks. Bloomsbury, USA, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9781501334023

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2020) Recorded music. In: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music Production. Bloomsbury handbooks. Bloomsbury Academic Press, New York. ISBN 9781501334023

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2019) Haydn in modern dress: applying experimental contemporary production techniques to the classical repertoire. In: The Art of Record Production: Creative Practice in the Studio. Ashgate Popular and Folk Music. Routledge Press, Abingdon, UK, pp. 185-201. (Submitted)

Henson, David and Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2019) Setting the agenda: theorizing popular music education practice. In: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices. Bloomsbury Academic, London, UK. ISBN 9781350049413

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2018) Directions in music by Miles Davis: using the ecological approach to perception and embodied cognition to analyse the creative use of recording technology in Bitches Brew. Technology and Culture, 59 (4). pp. 850-874. ISSN 0040-165X

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2018) The spectromorphology of recorded popular music: the shaping of sonic cartoons through record production. In: The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre and Popular Music. Oxford University Press, New York, USA. ISBN 9780199985227

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2018) Analysing the product of recorded musical activity. In: The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches. Routledge music companions. Routledge, Taylor and Francis, New York. ISBN 9781138683112

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2018) Timbre as text: the cognitive roots of intertextuality. In: The Pop Palimpsest: Intertextuality in Recorded Popular Music. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, pp. 273-290. ISBN 9780472130672

Capulet, Emilie and Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2017) The AHRC funded 'Classical Music Hyper-Production & Practice-As-Research' project: shaping the London College of Music's Research Agenda. In: UWL Research Conference 2017, 30 June 2017, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Capulet, Emilie and Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2017) The AHRC funded ‘Classical Music Hyper-Production & Practice-As-Research’ project: shaping the London College Of Music’s research agenda. In: UWL Research Conference 2017, 30 June 2017, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Capulet, Emilie and Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2017) Creating a rubato layer cake: performing and producing overdubs with expressive timing on a classical recording for 'solo' piano. Journal on the Art of Record Production, 11. ISSN 1754-9892

Bourbon, Andrew and Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2017) The ecological approach to mixing audio: agency, activity and environment in the process of audio staging. Journal on the Art of Record Production, 11. ISSN 1754-9892

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2016) The influence of recording technology and practice on popular music performance in the recording studio in Poland between 1960 and 1989. Polish Sociological Review, 2016 (196). ISSN 1231-1413

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2016) How is theoretical research meeting the challenges of pedagogy in the field of record production? In: Music, Technology and Education: Critical Perspectives. Routledge, Oxford, UK, pp. 67-84. ISBN 9781472426208

Bourbon, Andrew and Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2016) Sonic cartoons and semantic audio processing: using invariant properties to create schematic representations of acoustic phenomena. In: 2nd AES Workshop on Intelligent Music Production, 13 September 2016, London, UK.

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2016) Sonic cartoons. In: Sound As Popular Culture. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 403-410. ISBN 9780262033909

Bourbon, Andrew, Capulet, Emilie and Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2015) In modern dress. [Performance] (Unpublished)

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2015) Developing the formal structures of artistic practice-as-research. New Vistas, 1 (2). pp. 28-32. ISSN 2056-967X

Capulet, Emilie, Bourbon, Andrew, Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 and Blier-Carruthers, Amy (2015) Creative hyper-production - experiments in classical music and live digital signal processing. In: Royal Musical Association 51st Annual Conference, 09-11 Sep 2015, Birmingham, UK. (Unpublished)

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2015) An analysis of space, gesture and interaction in Kings of Leon's 'Sex On Fire' (2008). In: Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music. Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. Ashgate, Farnham, UK, pp. 115-132. ISBN 9781472428004

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2014) Recording aesthetics plenary panel. In: Art of Record Production Conference, 04-06 Dec 2014, Oslo, Norway. (Unpublished)

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2014) The musicology of record production book tour (4). In: The Musicology of Record Production Book Tour, 20th October 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark. (Unpublished)

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2014) The musicology of record production book tour (3). In: The Musicology of Record Production Book Tour, 17th October 2014, Stockholm, Sweden. (Unpublished)

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2014) The musicology of record production book tour (2). In: The Musicology of Record Production Book Tour, 16th October 2014, Dalarna, Sweden. (Unpublished)

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2014) The musicology of record production book tour (1). In: The Musicology of Record Production Book Tour, 15th October 2014, Berlin, Germany. (Unpublished)

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2014) Pop Akademie Mannhein annual visiting professorial lecture. In: Annual Visiting Professorial Lecture, 14 Oct 2014, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. (Unpublished)

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2014) Sex on Fire: a case study of how different forms of graphic representation can influence analysis. In: EuroMAC (European Music Analysis Conference), 17-21 Sep 2014, Leuven, Belgium. (Unpublished)

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2014) The musicology of record production. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781107075641

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2014) Performance in the studio: an educational workshop. In: Performance Studies Network Conference, 17-20 Jul 2014, Cambridge, UK. (Unpublished)

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2014) Invited speaker at Sonic Signatures Symposium. In: Sonic Signatures Symposium, 09-11 Apr 2014, Aalborg, Denmark. (Unpublished)

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2014) How could musicology help me become a better record producer?: Tensions between the vocational and the theoretical in music pedagogy. In: SEMPRE Music Education & Technology Conference, 03-04 Apr 2014, London, UK.

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2014) Keynote speech for Huddersfield University's Popular Music Studies Research Centre. In: Popular Music Studies Research Centre Launch, 15 Jan 2014, Huddersfield, UK. (Unpublished)

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2014) SOAS guest lecture. In: Guest Lecture, 14 Jan 2014, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2014) Bath Spa invited research seminar. In: Guest Research Lecture, 8th Jan 2014, Bath Spa University. (Unpublished)

Montano, Ed and Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2014) Production technologies and studio practice in electronic dance music culture: guest editors' introduction. Dancecult, 6 (1). pp. 1-7. ISSN 1947-5403

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2012) Musical meaning and the musicology of record production. Beiträge zur Popularmusikforschung, 38. pp. 135-147.

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2012) The US vs the UK sound: meaning in music production in the 1970s. In: The Art of Record Production: An Introductory Reader for a New Academic Field. Ashgate. ISBN 9781409406785

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2010) Real and unreal performances: the interaction of recording technology and rock drum kit performance. In: Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction. Ashgate, Farnham, UK, pp. 195-212. ISBN 9781409403401

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2010) The stadium in your bedroom: functional staging, authenticity and the audience-led aesthetic in record production. Popular Music, 29 (2). pp. 251-266. ISSN 0261-1430

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2007) The study of groove. Ethnomusicology Forum, 16 (2). pp. 327-335. ISSN 1741-1920

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2006) "We don't write songs, we write records": a compositional methodology based on late 20th century popular music. In: Proceedings of the 2006 International Computer Music Conference, 6-11 Nov 2006, New Orleans, USA.

Zagorski-Thomas, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-0320 (2006) Functional staging through the use of production techniques in late 20th century African and Cuban popular music recordings. In: 2006 International Art of Record Production Conference, 08-10 Sep 2006, Edinburgh, UK.