Charles Keil

4.5k citations
42 papers · 2.1k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 16

Impact in

  • Music top 0.02%
    • Music History and Culture
    • Diverse Music Education Insights
    • Musicology and Musical Analysis
    • Diverse Musicological Studies
    • Theater, Performance, and Music History

Papers in

    • Music History and Culture 16
    • Diverse Musicological Studies 8
    • Musicology and Musical Analysis 4
    • Theater, Performance, and Music History 4
    • Diverse Music Education Insights 2
    • Linguistic Variation and Morphology 2

Charles Keil

34 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening 2000 · 717 citations
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Peers

Charles Keil
Comparison fields: 5 of 100
  • Music 1.3k
  • Visual Arts and Performing Arts 150
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 544
  • Cultural Studies 165
  • Social Psychology 273
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Charles Keil, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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1
Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks, and Publics of Early Cinema
20127
2 20022
3 20022
4 19988
5 199645
6 19940
7 19944
8 19940
9 1987144
10 1985116
11 198417
12 19845
13 19839
14
Tiv Song: The Sociology of Art in a Classless Society
198315
15 198037
16 19801
17
Class and Ethnicity in Polish-America.
19791
18
How Musical Is Man?
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1976291
19 19668
20 196596

About Charles Keil

Charles Keil is a scholar working on Music, Linguistics and Language, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Cultural Studies and Literature and Literary Theory, having authored 42 papers that have together received 2.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Music History and Culture (16 papers), Diverse Musicological Studies (8 papers), Race, History, and American Society (7 papers), Musicology and Musical Analysis (4 papers), Theater, Performance, and Music History (4 papers), Diverse Music Education Insights (2 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 papers) and Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Music (1.3k citations), Visual Arts and Performing Arts (150 citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (544 citations), Cultural Studies (165 citations) and Social Psychology (273 citations). Charles Keil has collaborated with scholars based in United States. Frequent co-authors include Christopher G. Small, John Blacking, Eileen Southern, Steven Feld, Kyra D. Gaunt, LeRoi Jones, John F. Szwed, Charles Hamm, Simon Frith and Daniel Cavicchi. Their work appears in journals such as Ethnomusicology, Yearbook for Traditional Music, City & Society, Notes and Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

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