Steven Feld

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Steven Feld is a scholar working on Music, Anthropology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven Feld has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Music, 11 papers in Anthropology and 11 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Steven Feld's work include Diverse Musicological Studies (19 papers), Music History and Culture (12 papers) and Musicology and Musical Analysis (6 papers). Steven Feld is often cited by papers focused on Diverse Musicological Studies (19 papers), Music History and Culture (12 papers) and Musicology and Musical Analysis (6 papers). Steven Feld collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and France. Steven Feld's co-authors include Keith H. Basso, Yi‐Fu Tuan, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Aaron A. Fox, Eric Hirsch, Michael O’Hanlon, Donald Brenneis, Charles Keil, Kyra D. Gaunt and Bruno Nettl and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Annual Review of Anthropology and Geographical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Steven Feld

56 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Sound and Sentiment, Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression

1983 251 citations Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Steven Feld et al. Yearbook for Traditional Music profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Steven Feld United States	23	992	580	402	277	246	68	2.5k
Ruth Finnegan United Kingdom	27	482 0.5×	871 1.5×	497 1.2×	58 0.2×	118 0.5×	108	2.9k
John Blacking South Africa	21	596 0.6×	306 0.5×	163 0.4×	40 0.1×	321 1.3×	74	1.5k
Dana Polan United States	15	287 0.3×	626 1.1×	133 0.3×	57 0.2×	46 0.2×	71	2.0k
Jeremy Tambling Hong Kong	15	127 0.1×	662 1.1×	82 0.2×	128 0.5×	193 0.8×	122	2.2k
Edward S. Casey United States	18	75 0.1×	970 1.7×	253 0.6×	511 1.8×	153 0.6×	72	2.6k
Harold Bloom United States	23	180 0.2×	834 1.4×	279 0.7×	67 0.2×	65 0.3×	347	3.6k
Richard Shusterman United States	17	124 0.1×	717 1.2×	82 0.2×	63 0.2×	241 1.0×	94	2.2k
Paul Stoller United States	21	100 0.1×	965 1.7×	770 1.9×	299 1.1×	38 0.2×	106	2.1k
Michael Pickering United Kingdom	22	193 0.2×	573 1.0×	108 0.3×	76 0.3×	42 0.2×	89	1.8k
Alfred Gell United Kingdom	17	117 0.1×	1.2k 2.1×	1.7k 4.3×	918 3.3×	185 0.8×	37	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Steven Feld

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steven Feld

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven Feld

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Steven Feld. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Steven Feld based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Steven Feld. Steven Feld is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Feld, Steven. (2024). Hearing Heat: An Anthropocene acoustemology. The Australian Journal of Anthropology. 35(1-2). 143–144.

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Feld, Steven, et al.. (2022). Alternativas pós-etnomusicológicas. 10(2). 193–210. 2 indexed citations

3.

Rice, Tom & Steven Feld. (2020). Questioning Acoustemology: an interview with Steven Feld. Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter). 7(1). 119–132. 5 indexed citations

4.

Feld, Steven, et al.. (2020). Ressoar a antropologia: uma jam session com Steven Feld. Mana. 26(3). 4 indexed citations

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Feld, Steven, et al.. (2020). Representing the Poetics of Place. A conversation with Steven Feld. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 87. 89–98.

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Feld, Steven. (2018). Wept Thoughts: The Voicing of Kaluli Memories. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

7.

Feld, Steven. (2012). Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra.

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Feld, Steven. (2012). Sound and Sentiment. 49 indexed citations

9.

Feld, Steven. (2012). Sound and Sentiment. 15 indexed citations

10.

Feld, Steven. (2005). UMA DOCE CANTIGA DE NINAR PARA A "WORLD MUSIC". 4 indexed citations

11.

Feld, Steven. (2004). Une si douce berceuse pour la « World Music ». L Homme. 389–408. 2 indexed citations

12.

Schieffelin, Bambi B. & Steven Feld. (1998). Bosavi-English-Tok-Pisin Dictionary. 3 indexed citations

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Feld, Steven, Tony Mitchell, & Timothy D. Taylor. (1997). Popular Music and Local Identity. Yearbook for Traditional Music. 29. 141–141. 17 indexed citations

14.

Feld, Steven. (1996). Pygmy POP. A Genealogy of Schizophonic Mimesis. Yearbook for Traditional Music. 28. 1–1. 82 indexed citations

15.

Feld, Steven & Aaron A. Fox. (1994). Music and Language. Annual Review of Anthropology. 23(1). 25–53. 163 indexed citations

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Schieffelin, Bambi B. & Steven Feld. (1991). Sociolinguistic dimensions of Kaluli relationship terms. 451–454. 1 indexed citations

17.

Feld, Steven & Anthony Seeger. (1989). Why Suya Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People. Yearbook for Traditional Music. 21. 134–134. 2 indexed citations

18.

Kagan, Alexander, Steven Feld, Juan Chemke, & Yaacov Bar‐Khayim. (1988). Occurrence of Hereditary Nephritis, Pretibial Epidermolysis bullosa and Beta-Thalassemia minor in Two Siblings with End-Stage Renal Disease. The Nephron journals/Nephron journals. 49(4). 331–332. 24 indexed citations

19.

Nattiez, Jean-Jacques, et al.. (1983). Sound and Sentiment, Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression. Yearbook for Traditional Music. 15. 173–173. 251 indexed citations breakdown →

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Feld, Steven, et al.. (1980). The Usarufas and Their Music. Ethnomusicology. 24(3). 573–573. 8 indexed citations

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