Steven Feld

6.5k citations
68 papers · 2.5k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 23

Impact in

  • Music top 0.05%
    • Music History and Culture
    • Diverse Musicological Studies
    • Musicology and Musical Analysis
    • Diverse Music Education Insights
    • Geographies of human-animal interactions

Papers in

    • Diverse Musicological Studies 19
    • Music History and Culture 12
    • Musicology and Musical Analysis 6
    • African history and culture studies 5

Steven Feld

56 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Sound and Sentiment, Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression 1983 · 251 citations
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Peers

Steven Feld
Comparison fields: 5 of 119
  • Music 992
  • Geography, Planning and Development 277
  • Archeology 50
  • Anthropology 402
  • Cultural Studies 241
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The 23 scholars most cited alongside Steven Feld, 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

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Sound and Sentiment, Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression
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1983251
3 1997221
4 1994163
5 2004148
6 2000143
7 2000127
8 1984114
9 1988108
10 1990103
11 198493
12 199682
13 198680
14 198155
15 198852
16 201249
17 199645
18 198738
19 197438
20 201237

About Steven Feld

Steven Feld is a scholar working on Music, Anthropology, Geography, Planning and Development, Language and Linguistics and Archeology, having authored 68 papers that have together received 2.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Diverse Musicological Studies (19 papers), Music History and Culture (12 papers), Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (6 papers), Musicology and Musical Analysis (6 papers), Linguistics and Cultural Studies (5 papers), African history and culture studies (5 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (5 papers) and South African History and Culture (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Music (992 citations), Geography, Planning and Development (277 citations), Archeology (50 citations), Anthropology (402 citations) and Cultural Studies (241 citations). Steven Feld has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Brazil and France. Frequent co-authors include Keith H. Basso, Yi‐Fu Tuan, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Aaron A. Fox, Eric Hirsch, Donald Brenneis, Michael O’Hanlon, Charles Keil, Kyra D. Gaunt and Bruno Nettl. Their work appears in journals such as Yearbook for Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology, Public Culture, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Visual Anthropology Review.

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