| Black noise: Rap music and black culture in contemporary America T Rose Wesleyan, 1994 | 6058 | 1994 |
| Feminine endings: Music, gender, and sexuality S McClary U of Minnesota Press, 2002 | 3957 | 2002 |
| Towards an aesthetic of popular music S Frith, R Leppert, S McClary Popular music: Critical concepts in media and cultural studies 4, 32-47, 2004 | 1067 | 2004 |
| Conventional wisdom: The content of musical form S McClary Univ of California Press, 2000 | 668 | 2000 |
| Music and society: The politics of composition, performance and reception R Leppert, S McClary Cambridge University Press, 1989 | 572 | 1989 |
| Carmen S McClary Cambridge University Press, 1992 | 368 | 1992 |
| Start making sense! Musicology wrestles with rock S McClary, R Walser On record: Rock, pop, and the written word 277, 292, 1990 | 340 | 1990 |
| Terminal prestige: The case of avant-garde music composition S McClary Cultural critique, 57-81, 1989 | 307 | 1989 |
| The blasphemy of talking politics during Bach Year S McClary Music and Society: The politics of composition, performance and reception, 13-62, 1987 | 257 | 1987 |
| Feminine Endings: Music S McClary Gender, and Sexuality (Minneapolis, 1991) 7, 1991 | 248 | 1991 |
| Modal subjectivities: self-fashioning in the Italian madrigal S McClary Univ of California Press, 2004 | 178 | 2004 |
| Narrative agendas in ‘absolute’music: identity and difference in Brahms’s third symphony S McClary Musicology and difference: Gender and sexuality in music scholarship, 326-44, 1993 | 157 | 1993 |
| Constructions of subjectivity in Schubert’s music S McClary Queering the Pitch, 217-246, 2013 | 156 | 2013 |
| Theorizing the body in African-American music S McClary, R Walser Black Music Research Journal, 75-84, 1994 | 156 | 1994 |
| Same as it ever was: Youth culture and music S McClary Microphone Fiends, 29-40, 2014 | 152 | 2014 |
| Reshaping a Discipline: Musicology and Feminism in the 1990s S McClary Feminist Studies 19 (2), 399-423, 1993 | 120 | 1993 |
| Desire and pleasure in seventeenth-century music S McClary Univ of California Press, 2012 | 114 | 2012 |
| A musical dialectic from the enlightenment: Mozart's" piano concerto in g major, k. 453", movement 2 S McClary Cultural Critique, 129-169, 1986 | 110 | 1986 |
| The impromptu that trod on a loaf: Or how music tells stories S McClary Narrative 5 (1), 20-35, 1997 | 103 | 1997 |
| Afterword: The politics of silence and sound S McClary Noise: The political economy of music, 149-158, 1985 | 97 | 1985 |
