His research focuses on histories of black diasporic culture and politics from the mid-twentieth century onwards, approaching the histories of black diasporic culture through modes of artistic experimentation with sound and the politics of intellectual production, and paying attention to the relationships between popular and experimental music, art practice, cinema, publishing and political organisation. He has published two books: Beefy’s Tune (Dean Blunt Edit) (The 87 Press); and Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early Twenty-First Century (Goldsmiths Press / MIT Press), alongside a number of articles appearing in journals such as Social Text, South Atlantic Quartely and New Formations.