Scholarly and Creative Works
2025
- Garza, J. M. (2025). Music Speaks Louder than Words (Or Maybe About the Same): Humor and Meaning Through NOFX’s Subversion of Expectations. In “Problematic” Punk: NOFX’s Forty Years of Punk Provocations. New York, NY, United States: Bloomsbury.
- Garza, J. M. (2025). Primordial Percussion: Drumming in Six Influential Metal Albums. In The Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition: Evolution of Structure, Expression, and Production. New York, NY, United States: Routledge.
- Garza, J. M. (2025). The Duality of Drums: Exploring Timpani’s Melodic and Percussive Potential in Rodis’s Colossus. In J. Peterson & K. G. Loeffert (Eds.), Modeling Musical Analysis. New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press.
2021
- Garza, J. M. (2021). Transcending Time (Feels): Riff Types, Timekeeping Cymbals, and Time Feels in Contemporary Metal Music. Music Theory Online, 27(1). Retrieved from https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.21.27.1/mto.21.27.1.garza.html
2019
- Percussionist, First Presbyterian Church: Guest Musician.
October 6, 2019.
Performances:
- Service. October 6, 2019 First Presbyterian Church, San Marcos, TX.
- Lessons and Carols Service. December 15, 2019 First Presbyterian Church, San Marcos, TX.
2017
- Garza, J. M. (2017). Adapt and Prevail: New Applications of Rhythmic and Metric Analysis in Contemporary Metal Music. Tallahassee, FL, United States: Florida State University. Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/docview/2018825678/3706F2E6E1DB4B0BPQ/1?accountid=5683
2013
- Real Talk for timpani duet.
2013.
Performances:
- Randallyn Kelso and Nikki Singer: Joint Junior Recital. 2012 - Present
- Blur the Lines for percussion quartet.
2013.
Performances:
- Texas State University 9th Annual Composition Competition. 2013 - Present
2011
- Discovery for violin, viola, violoncello, and contrabass.
2011.
Performances:
- Texas State University 7th Annual Composition Competition. 2011 - Present