Journal Articles
1. The Evolution of West African Popular Entertainment Entry for New Encylopedia of Africa (eds. J. Middleton, J. Taylor & K.Wachsberger). ISBN 978-0-684-31454-9. Published by Charles Scribner and Sons Reference Books, U.S.A. 2007.
2. The Pan-African Goombay Drum-Dance: Its Ramifications and Development in Ghana. Legon Journal of the Humanities, Vol. XVIII, 2007, pp. 179-200, (eds. Gordon Adika & Kofi Ackah). Published by the Faculty of Arts, University of Ghana Legon. ISSN 0855-1502
3. Nkrumah and Highlife. New Legon Observor. Ghana Society for Development Dialogue Publication, vol. 2 no. 7, 24 April 2008, pp. 5-7
4. High on Life (on Ghana’s 50th independence anniversary) Songlines, London, (ed Simon Broughton), Issue 44, June 2007 pp. 28-32.
5. Ghana and the World Music Boom. In World Music: Roots and Routes, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Vol, 6 2009, ed. Tuulikki Pietila (ISSN No.1796-2980) http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/e-series/volumes/volume_6/index.htm
6. Highlife and Nkrumah’s Independence Ethos. In Journal of Performing Arts, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 93-104 (ed. John Collins/John Djisenu) Published by the School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana, Legon, 2009/2010. (ISBN 0855-2606)
7. Tribute by John Collins p 28-31 to the late Kofi Ghanaba in the 43 page funeral brochure ‘ Celebrating the Life of Ghanaba’ published by his family and friends in March 2009.
8. Article, ‘Popular Performance and Culture in Ghana: The Past 50 Years.’ In the Ghana Studies Journal published by African Studies Publications. (eds. Stephan Mieshcher et al) Vol. 10 (2007): 9-64. (nb published in 2007 but due to delays only now available)
9. World Music: A Stimulus to Ghanaian Tourism. Education and ‘Cross-Over” Musical Collaborationss, Article in The Journal of Performing arts, University of Ghana School of Performing Arts (ed John Collins Vol. 4, No. 2, 2011 pp. 71-80, ISBN 0855-2606
Book Chapters
10. The Entrance of Women into Ghanaian Popular Entertainment:. Chapter in the festschrifte book The Legacy of Efua Sutherland: Pan African Cultural Activism, edited by Anne V. Adams and Efua Sutherland-Addy, published Ayebia Clark Publishing Ltd, UK, 2007 pp. 47-54 (ISBN NO. 978-0-9547023-1-1)
11. Popular Dance Music and the Media, chapter 14 in Media and Identity in Africa (eds. Kimani Njogu and John Middleton) Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, 2009 ( ISBN No. 978 0 74863522 1)
12. A Century of Changing Locations of Ghanaian Commercial Popular Entertainment Venues’. Lieux de sociabilité urbaine en Afrique (edited with Laurent Fourchard et Muriel Gomez-Perez), L’Harmattan, 2009, pp 225-252.
13. Popularmusikens Generationsvaxling - Exemplet Ghana. In: Kultur I Africa (ed Mai Palmberg & Carita Backstrom of the Nordikiska Afrikainstutet), published by Bokforlaget Tranan AB, Stockholm, Sweden 2010, pp. 44-53. (ISBN nr 978-91-86307-25-7)
14. Some Reasons for Teaching African Popular Music in University. In Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities Through African Perspectives, Vol. 2, (ed. Helen Lauer & Kofi Anyidoho). Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana, 2012, pp. 1412-1423.
15. Contemporary Ghanaian Popular Music since the 1980s. In Hip Hop Africa: New African Music in a Globalising World. (ed Eric Charry) Indiana University Press 2012, pp. 211-133 [978-0253-00575-5] +see http:\\hiphopafrica.wesleyan.edu.
16. ‘The Protestants from Abeokuta: Fela Kuti and His Cousin’ by John Collins and Ivor Agyeman-Duah. Chapter in Agyeman-Duah Ivor and Ogochukwu Promise. (eds) Crucible of the Ages - Wole Soyinka at 80: Essays in Honour of African Literary and Cultural Studies. Published by Bookcraft (Nigeria) for the Africa edition and Ayebia Clarke Publishers, Oxfordshire for the UK and US edition 2013, pp. 177-185.
17. A Historical Review of Popular Entertainment in Sub-Saharan Africa’. In: Africa in Contemporary Perspective: A Textbook for Undergraduate Students, ed Takyiwaa Manuh and Esi Sutherland Addy, published by Sub Saharan Publishers, 2013. Pages 445-466.
18. The Ghanaian and Nigerian Gospel Music Explosion’. Chapter 4 in the Journal of Performing Arts,University of Ghana School of Performing Arts, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2014.
Books & Booklets
19. Fela KaluKuta Notes. Fela: Kalakuta Notes. Published April 2009 by the book section of the Dutch Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam
20. West African Highlife Giants. Forthcoming 2015 Cassava Republic Press, Abuja, Nigeria
21. The Making of a Highlife Legend: King Buce and the Black Beats. (Co-authored with King Bruce and also Flemming Harrev as contributing editor). Forthcoming Smartline Publications, Accra.
22. Fela a Kalatuta Notes. Revised, updated and enlarged version of 2009 book. Forthcoming 2015 Wesleyan University Press USA
23. E.T. Mensah the King of Highlife Anthology. Booklet accompanying 4CD Tempos compilation album. RetroAfric London 2014/15
Book Reviews
24. Book review by John Collins. Form and Structure of African Music: A Generative Theory of Structural Organization by Willie Anku, forthcoming Codesria, Dakar. In the The Journal of Performing Arts, University of Ghana School of Performing Arts, Vol. 4, No. 3. 2012, pp. 155-9
25. Book Review of ‘Jesse Weaver Shipley’s ‘Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music (Duke University Press 2013); for Popular Music, Cambridge Journals, Cambridge University Press, UK, vol. 33, no. 03, 2014, pp. 566-568. [http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A93knCg1]