Paul Berliner

1.7k citations
21 papers · 755 indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 8

Impact in

  • Music top 0.2%
    • Diverse Music Education Insights
    • Music History and Culture
    • Musicology and Musical Analysis
    • Diverse Musicological Studies
    • Neuroscience and Music Perception

Papers in

    • Musicology and Musical Analysis 3
    • Diverse Musicological Studies 2
    • Music History and Culture 1
    • African history and culture studies 3
    • Global Maritime and Colonial Histories 2

Paul Berliner

20 papers receiving 602 citations

Hit Papers

Thinking in Jazz 1994 · 491 citations
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Peers

Paul Berliner
Comparison fields: 5 of 80
  • Music 412
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 254
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 111
  • Visual Arts and Performing Arts 37
  • Archeology 8
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The 5 scholars most cited alongside Paul Berliner, 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
#Work
1
The Art of Mbira: Musical Inheritance and Legacy
20202
2 20191
3
Las vicisitudes del solista
20021
4 199525
5 199596
6 199410
7
Thinking in Jazz
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1994491
8
The soul of mbira : music and traditions of the Shona people of Zimbabwe : with an appendix, Building and playing a Shona karimba
19936
9 19802
10 198011
11 19805
12 19805
13 197961
14 19798
15
The soul of mbira
197821
16 19762
17 19754
18 19751
19 19742
20 19740

About Paul Berliner

Paul Berliner is a scholar working on Music, Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Language and Linguistics, having authored 21 papers that have together received 755 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include African studies and sociopolitical issues (9 papers), African history and culture analysis (4 papers), African history and culture studies (3 papers), Musicology and Musical Analysis (3 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 papers), Diverse Musicological Studies (2 papers), Music History and Culture (1 paper) and Civil and Structural Engineering Research (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Music (412 citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (254 citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (111 citations), Visual Arts and Performing Arts (37 citations) and Archeology (8 citations). Paul Berliner has collaborated with scholars based in Germany and United States. Frequent co-authors include Robert Witmer, Roderic Knight, Mark Slobin, Kazadi wa Mukuna and Ruth M. Stone. Their work appears in journals such as Ethnomusicology, Notes, African Arts, Yearbook for Traditional Music and Journal of American Folklore.

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