Steven M Friedson

Biographic Data

ID110720
NAMESteven M Friedson
GIVEN NAMESSteven M
FAMILY NAMEFriedson
SIGNATUREFRIEDSON S M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of North Texas
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS30
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX2

  • The Music Box

    Steven M FriedsonARTICLEEthnomusicology2019Cited by: 4References: 26

    Two musical moments on the edge: At a black site in Thailand, Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee in the "Global War on Terror," is placed inside a confinement box less than three feet square. All the while, music-from death metal to Barney the Purple Dinosaur's "I Love You"-blasts unpredictably, unrelentingly. Not only in the box but day and night Zubaydah was subjected to a musical assault that was inescapable, nailing him to an existen…

  • The unbearable weight of music

    Open AccessSteven M FriedsonARTICLEAnthropology Today2019References: 18

    The affordances of musical experience, its capacity to become our mode of being-in-the-world, especially in ritual situations, can be turned against us into an aversive sonic attack that bends the social arc into a liminality without end, a time in between that goes nowhere. And when this happens, we have entered the realm of music torture, a relatively recent innovation in that dark art that was ushered into the world in full force at the beginn…

  • Remains of Ritual

    Steven M FriedsonBOOKRemains of Ritual2009

  • Remains of Ritual

    Steven M FriedsonBOOKRemains of Ritual2009

  • Here Divine Horsemen Ride

    Steven M FriedsonCHAPTERAesthetics in Performance2005

  • African Rhythm

    Steven M Friedson, Kofi V AgawuARTICLEAfrica2001Cited by: 1

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  • The JVC & Smithsonian Folkways Video Anthology of Music and Dance of Africa

    Frank Gunderson, Hiroshi Yamamoto et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology1999

  • Dancing Prophets

    P Stoller, Steven M FriedsonARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1998Cited by: 1

  • Dancing Prophets

    Carol Muller, Steven M Friedson et al.ARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1997

  • The Performance of Healing

    Steven M Friedson, Steven Friedson et al.ARTICLEAsian Music1997

  • Dancing Prophets

    Veit Erlmann, Steven M Friedson et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1997Cited by: 24