Wright, B. F. (2023). Elvis Presley in Las Vegas: The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll in the City of Second Chances. Viva Las Vegas: Music and Myth in America’s City of Second Chances.
Wright, B. F. (2014). "Transvaluing Adam Clayton: Why the Bass Matters in U2's Music". U2 Above, Across, and Beyond: Interdisciplinary Assessments. 17-30. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Press.
Wright, B. (2021). Review of Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit. Notes, Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association. 77(3), 421-424.
Wright, B. F. (2019). “Review of The Banjo: America’s African Instrument by Laurent Dubois”. Asian Journal of Latin American Studies. 58(No. 1), 118. https://journals.ku.edu/amerstud/issue/view/1269
Wright, B. F. (2017). “Review of Knowing Jazz by Ken Prouty and School for Cool by Eitan Y. Wilf”. Journal of the Society for American Music. 11(2), 227-232.
Wright, B. F. (2016). “Review of Networks of Sound, Style, and Subversion: The Punk and Post-Punk Worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool, and Sheffield, 1975-1980, by Nick Crossley”. Other. 72(4), 746-748.
Wright, B. F. (2014). “Review of Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease, by James Kennaway”. Other. 71(2), 305-307.
Wright, B. F. (2013). “Review of Ecomusicology: Rock, Folk, and the Environment, by Mark Pedelty”. Environmental Values. 22(3), 432-434.
Wright, B. F. (2012). “Review of Grunge: Music and Memory, by Catherine Strong”. Other.
Wright, B. F. (2016). “Review of Jaco: The Film (directed by Paul Marchand and Stephen Kijak) and Jaco: Original Soundtrack”. 9(3), 319-324.
Wright, B. F. (2014). “Review of Under African Skies (directed by Joe Berlinger)”. Other. 1(1), 109-13.
Wright, B. F., Sheets, A., Bacon, T. (2020). "Electric Bass Guitar". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wright, B. F., Martin, A. R., Mihalka, M. (2020). "Folkways Records". Music Around the World: A Global Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio.
Wright, B. F., Martin, A. R., Mihalka, M. (2020). "Nordic Jazz". Music Around the World: A Global Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio.
Wright, B. F. (2023). Introduction: What Kenny G Can Teach Us About Jazz. Other.
Wright, B. (2023). Forum: “Revisiting Kenny G”. Other.
Wright, B., Coddington, A., Mall, A. (2021). Looking Towards the Future: Popular Music Studies and Music Scholarship. Other. 18(1), 3-70. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twentieth-century-music/issue/E985ABBC201D432986E7EB44664FB4E6
Wright, B., Coddington, A., Mall, A. (2021). Looking Towards the Future: Popular Music Studies and Music Scholarship: Introduction. Other. 18(1), 3-11. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478572220000237
Wright, B., Coddington, A., Mall, A. (2020). Conference Report: ‘The Future of Pop: Big Questions Facing Popular Music Studies in the 21st Century,’ AMS Pre-Conference Symposium. Other. 32(3), .
Wright, B. (2020). Jaco Pastorius, the Electric Bass, and the Struggle for Jazz Credibility. Other. University of California Press.
Wright, B. F. (2019). "Reconstructing the History of Motown Session Musicians: The Carol Kaye / James Jamerson Controversy". Journal of the Society for American Music. 13(1), 78-109. New York, New York: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1752196318000536
Wright, B. F. (2015). "'A Bastard Instrument': The Fender Precision Bass, Monk Montgomery, and Jazz in the 1950s". Other. 8(3), 281-303. Taylor & Francis. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17494060.2015.1085888
Wright, B. F. (2016). “Eugene Grew, Long-Lost Motown Session Master”. 84-87.
Wright, B. F. (2014). “Interview with Peter Roller, author of Milwaukee Garage Bands: Generations of Grassroots Rock”. Other. IASPM-US Interview Series.