People - Faculty

Steven Feld
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Music (Ethnology)
At UNM since Fall 2003

feld@unm.edu
Website: www.voxlox.net
505.277-1539

Anthropology Courses Taught at UNM since 2002

  • Expressive Culture (346)
  • Anthropology of World Beat (444/544)
  • Anthropology of Music and Sound (448/548)
  • New Guinea Representations (449/549)
  • Anthropology of the Senses (530)
  • Anthropology of Place (530)

Education

Hofstra University, Anthropology and Music, BA summa cum laude 1971
Indiana University, Anthropology, Linguistics, Ethnomusicology, PhD 1979
Dissertation: “Sound and Sentiment”


Research

Cultural poetics and politics; aesthetics, sound, senses and media; world music; globalization, cosmopolitanisms and modernities; place; Papua New Guinea, West Africa


Selected Publications: Books

Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana, 2012, Duke
University Press book; companion 3 DVD and 10 CD issued by VoxLox.

Sound and Sentiment, 2012, 3rd/30th anniversary edition, Duke University
Press; companion 4 CD issued by Smithsonian Folkways.

Ciné-ethnography: Jean Rouch, 2003, University of Minnesota Press
(editor/translator).

Bright Balkan Morning: Romani Lives and the Power of Music in Greek
Macedonia, 2002, Wesleyan University Press (with Angeliki and Charles Keil
and Dick Blau).

Kaluli-Tok Pisin-English Dictionary, 2000, Pacific Linguistics, Australian
National University Press (with B.B. Schieffelin).


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