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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Performances:

\n Texas State University Rock Ensemble Fall 2022 Concert.\n December 2, 2022\n Railyard Bar and Grill, San Marcos, TX.\n

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Performances:

\n Texas State University Rock Ensemble Spring 2022 Concert.\n April 29, 2022\n Wake the Dead Coffee House, San Marcos, TX.\n
\n Benefit for the Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center.\n March 31, 2022\n Industry, San Marcos, TX.\n
\n Spencer-Lockett Scholarship Fundraiser.\n April 3, 2022\n Private residence, San Marcos, TX.\n

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Performances:

\n Texas State University Rock Ensemble Fall 2021 Concert.\n December 3, 2021\n Wake the Dead Coffee House, San Marcos, TX.\n

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Performances:

\n Fall 2019 Concert.\n December 6, 2019\n Tantra, San Marcos, TX.\n

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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

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Performances:

\n Randallyn Kelso and Nikki Singer: Joint Junior Recital.\n 2012 - Present\n\n

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Performances:

\n Texas State University 9th Annual Composition Competition.\n 2013 - Present\n\n

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Performances:

\n Texas State University 7th Annual Composition Competition.\n 2011 - Present\n\n

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Dr. Jose Manuel Garza Jr.

Biography

Research Interests