John Blacking

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

John Blacking is a scholar working on Music, Anthropology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John Blacking has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Music, 7 papers in Anthropology and 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in John Blacking's work include Diverse Musicological Studies (17 papers), Musicology and Musical Analysis (13 papers) and Music History and Culture (7 papers). John Blacking is often cited by papers focused on Diverse Musicological Studies (17 papers), Musicology and Musical Analysis (13 papers) and Music History and Culture (7 papers). John Blacking collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and Brazil. John Blacking's co-authors include Charles Keil, Judith Lynne Hanna, Reginald Byron, Jonathan P. J. Stock, James Porter, Michel Panoff, K. Peter Etzkorn, Alice Β. Kehoe, Keith Howard and Alan Dundes and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, World Development and Current Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

John Blacking

63 papers receiving 986 citations

Hit Papers

How Musical Is Man? 1976 2026 1992 2009 1976 50 100 150 200 250
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. How Musical Is Man?
    1976 291 citations John Blacking et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Blacking South Africa 21 596 321 306 234 208 74 1.5k
Bruno Nettl United States 21 1.0k 1.7× 437 1.4× 287 0.9× 197 0.8× 143 0.7× 166 1.9k
Alan P. Merriam United States 14 712 1.2× 242 0.8× 228 0.7× 124 0.5× 103 0.5× 89 1.3k
Charles Keil United States 16 1.3k 2.2× 544 1.7× 420 1.4× 166 0.7× 273 1.3× 42 2.1k
Judith Lynne Hanna United States 20 258 0.4× 104 0.3× 349 1.1× 526 2.2× 223 1.1× 86 1.3k
Susanne K. Langer United States 17 223 0.4× 331 1.0× 284 0.9× 500 2.1× 332 1.6× 39 2.0k
Willard R. Trask 15 138 0.2× 183 0.6× 402 1.3× 163 0.7× 146 0.7× 28 2.1k
Peter Kivy United States 20 538 0.9× 759 2.4× 117 0.4× 387 1.7× 254 1.2× 122 1.5k
Melvin Rader United States 11 145 0.2× 219 0.7× 219 0.7× 275 1.2× 208 1.0× 32 1.3k
Ellen Dissanayake United States 14 96 0.2× 315 1.0× 233 0.8× 347 1.5× 375 1.8× 50 1.3k
Philip Auslander United States 17 475 0.8× 67 0.2× 496 1.6× 256 1.1× 111 0.5× 68 2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by John Blacking

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Blacking

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Blacking

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Blacking, John. (2001). El análisis cultural de la música. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 181–202.
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Porter, James, John Blacking, & Reginald Byron. (1996). Music, Culture and Experience: Selected Papers of John Blacking. Western Folklore. 55(2). 163–163. 28 indexed citations
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Stock, Jonathan P. J., John Blacking, & Reginald Byron. (1995). Music, Culture, and Experience: Selected Papers of John Blacking. The Musical Times. 136(1830). 436–436. 94 indexed citations
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Blacking, John, et al.. (1990). "A commonsense view of all music. Reflection on Percy Grainger's contribution to ethnomusicology and music education", John Blacking, Cambridge 1987 : [recenzja] / Zbigniew Skowron.. 35. 6 indexed citations
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Blacking, John, et al.. (1989). "A Commonsense View of All Music": Reflections on Percy Grainger's Contribution to Ethnomusicology and Music Education. Notes. 45(3). 511–511. 6 indexed citations
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Blacking, John. (1989). Challenging the Myth of 'Ethnic' Music: First Performances of a New Song in an African Oral Tradition, 1961. Yearbook for Traditional Music. 21. 17–17. 5 indexed citations
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Blacking, John. (1988). Ethnomusicology and Prehistoric Music-Making. 329–335. 4 indexed citations
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Blacking, John, et al.. (1980). Le sens musical. 3 indexed citations
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Fallows, David, et al.. (1980). Musicology in Great Britain Since 1945. Acta Musicologica. 52(1). 38–38. 2 indexed citations
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Blacking, John, et al.. (1979). The performing arts : music and dance. Mouton eBooks. 28 indexed citations
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Nettl, Bruno, Dominique-René de Lerma, Gilbert Rouget, et al.. (1975). Classical Persian Music: An Introduction. Notes. 31(3). 553–553. 1 indexed citations
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Blacking, John, et al.. (1974). How Musical is Man?. Man. 9(3). 504–504. 67 indexed citations
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Blacking, John, et al.. (1974). Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents.. Man. 9(2). 332–332. 11 indexed citations
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Blacking, John. (1969). Songs, dances, mimes and symbolism of Venda girls' initiation schools. African Studies. 28(4). 215–266. 13 indexed citations
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Blacking, John. (1965). Music in Uganda. 3(4). 14–17. 2 indexed citations
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Tobias, Phillip V., et al.. (1965). Bushmen and other non-Bantu peoples of Angola : three lectures. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 6 indexed citations
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Hellmann, Ellen, et al.. (1962). Book reviews. African Studies. 21(1). 40–48. 1 indexed citations
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Blacking, John. (1961). The social value of Venda riddles. African Studies. 20(1). 1–32. 23 indexed citations
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Blacking, John. (1959). Problems of pitch, pattern and harmony in the ocarina music of the Venda. African Music Journal of the International Library of African Music. 2(2). 15–23. 8 indexed citations

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