| Exploring modal subversions in alternative music C McDonald Popular Music 19 (3), 355-363, 2000 | 67 | 2000 |
| Rush, rock music, and the middle class: Dreaming in Middletown CJ McDonald Indiana University Press, 2009 | 60 | 2009 |
| Colloquy: Musicology and the Middlebrow C Chowrimootoo, K Guthrie, J Howland, A Flory, C McDonald, H Wiebe, ... Journal of the American Musicological Society 73 (2), 327-395, 2020 | 15 | 2020 |
| Interpretations of tradition: from Gaelic song to Celtic pop C McDonald, H Sparling Journal of Popular Music Studies 22 (3), 309-328, 2010 | 12 | 2010 |
| The bourgeois blues? rock music and class C McDonald The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class, 427-443, 2020 | 9 | 2020 |
| 'Rock, roll and remember?': Addressing the legacy of jazz in popular music studies. C McDonald Popular Music History 1 (2), 2006 | 9 | 2006 |
| From stride to regional pride? Cape Breton piano accompaniment as musical and cultural process C McDonald Ethnomusicology Forum 26 (2), 193-214, 2017 | 7 | 2017 |
| A MUSICAL, SOCIAL & ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF RUSH CJ McDonald York University Toronto, 2002 | 5 | 2002 |
| Traditional Piano Accompaniment in Cape Breton. C McDonald Canadian Folk Music 47 (2), 2013 | 3 | 2013 |
| John Allan Cameron: The Godfather of Cape Breton's Celtic Music. C McDonald Canadian Folk Music 46 (1), 2012 | 3 | 2012 |
| Open Secrets: Individualism and Middle‐Class Identity in the Songs of Rush C McDonald Popular Music and Society 31 (3), 313-328, 2008 | 3 | 2008 |
| From both sides now?’Ethnomusicology, Folklore and the Rise of the Canadian Singer-songwriter C McDonald Folk music, Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology: Canadian Perspectives, Past …, 2007 | 3 | 2007 |
| Michelle Phillipov, Death Metal and Music Criticism: Analysis at the Limits C McDonald Volume!. La revue des musiques populaires, 217-218, 2012 | 2 | 2012 |
| Towards a musicology of the Celtic sound C McDonald | 2 | 2008 |
| " Making Arrows Out of Pointed Words": Critical Reception, Taste Publics, and Rush CJ McDonald The Journal of American Culture 25 (3/4), 249, 2002 | 2 | 2002 |
| Colloquy: Musicology and the Middlebrow K Guthrie, C Chowrimootoo, J Howland, A Flory, C McDonald, H Wiebe, ... Journal of the American Musicological Society 73 (2), 327-395, 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
| Singer-Songwriters in Cape Breton: Marking Ground Between Traditional and Popular C McDonald | 1 | |
| Fringe or Middle? Assessing Rock as Late Twentieth-Century Middlebrow C McDonald | | 2022 |
| The Cape Breton Piano: Life at the Fiddler's Elbow C McDonald Breton Books, 2022 | | 2022 |
| Exploring Community-Based Alternatives: Vernacular Music and Higher Education in Cape Breton C McDONALD MUSICultures 48, 343-365, 2021 | | 2021 |
