Steven Feld
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3596932 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Steven Feld |
| PRENOMES | Steven |
| SOBRENOME | Feld |
| ASSINATURA | FELD S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 82 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 944 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
From Ethnomusicology To Echo-Museecology
The piece was originally requested as a contribution for Murray Schafer's 60th birthday party, a conference titled “The Tuning of the World” held at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 1993. That is why it has an oral form (I had no idea it would ever be published and did not revise it for publication). I presented it with rainforest sounds in the background, to an audience of mostly composers and sound art and radio people, including, of course, Mu…
Hearing Heat
‘Hearing Heat: An Anthropocene acoustemology’ is an intermedia composition that meditates on the climate of history, listening to histories of listening from the Papua New Guinea rainforest to nuclear Japan to ancient and contemporary Greece. It proceeds through continual recombinations of visual and sonic media, with photographs, graphics, animation, and cinema dialoguing with ethnographic field recording of Indigenous song, ambient environmenta…
La recherche comme composition
L’enquête ethnographique a toujours été accompagnée par l’enregistrement de matériaux visuels et sonores auxquels les anthropologues donnent plus ou moins forme. Toutefois, rares sont celles et ceux qui considèrent cette création formelle comme une source de connaissance fondamentale. Figure de premier plan de l’anthropologie et des sound studies de langue anglaise, Steven Feld a développé une conception de la recherche comme composition sans éga…
The Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra Project
In this interview, Steven Feld, an anthropologist, filmmaker, musician, and sound artist, discusses his multimedia project on “Jazz Cosmopolitanism” in Ghana. From 2004, Feld started to study acoustemology—one’s sonic way of knowing and being in the world—from the standpoint of avant-garde jazz musicians and visual artists in Accra. He worked as a producer and as a sound engineer, before performing as a musician with the Accra Trane Station band …
Alternativas pós-etnomusicológicas
Texto de Steven Feld originalmente intitulado "On Post-Ethnomusicology Alternatives: Acoustemo-logy", publicado em 2017 na coletânea Perspectives on a 21st Century Comparative Musicology: Ethnomu-sicology or Transcultural Musicology?, organizada por Francesco Giannattasio e Giovani Giuriati
A Poetics of Place
One way to imagine the potency of &s;nature&s; as a cultural construction is to imagine the appropriateness of the word &s;aesthetic&s; in each place where Rappaport uses the word &s;adaptive&s; in his essay on ecology and cognition. Here, ecological and aesthetic co-evolution means that the music of nature is heard as the nature of music. The ethnographic dimensions of this paper draw from field research among the Kaluli, one of four subgroups o…
Collaborative Migrations
From 2001-5 Virginia Ryan staged several hundred photographs of herself in diverse situations in Accra, Ghana, and surrounding locales in West Africa, where she was living and working as an artist, administrator, and member of a diplomatic mission. The images inquire into and create an artistic conversation about the experience of being white in West Africa, of a European woman being the exposed object of a non-European gaze. The essay blurs voic…
Places Sensed, Senses Placed
The chapter opens with brief notes on sensation, sound, synesthesia, and soundscapes that provide context for the general framework of inquiry, that of a social phenomenology and hermeneutics of senses of place. It outlines ways in which research on acoustic experience and expression of place has remained relatively underdeveloped and then introduce the sound world of the Kaluli. Drew Leder’s conjecture as to why some bodily dimensions are always…
Voices of the Rainforest and Gifts that Keep on Giving
This essay is a responsorial introduction to seven critical reviews of the Voices of the Rainforest project in Bosavi Papua New Guinea. Beginning with a 1991 CD production and growing to an immersive surround sound film, a 2nd edition recomposed CD, and a photobook thirty years later, the project explores collaborative research in and as art practice, and its actual history and future potential as cultural advocacy through media. The responsorial…
A Sweet Lullaby for World Music
Chants en cascade. Une acoustémologie de la résonance du lieu au Bosavi, Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée
Dans ce célèbre article initialement paru en 1996 et présenté ici en version française, Steven Feld introduit le concept d’« acoustémologie », ou connaissance par le son. Après avoir montré en quoi la recherche sur l’expérience acoustique et l’expression du lieu est demeurée relativement peu développée, l’auteur présente le monde sonore kaluli. Il propose ensuite deux parties ethnographiques portant sur l’acoustémologie de l’écoulement. La premiè…
Resounding Participatory Ethnography
This dialogue explores issues in contemporary sonic, sensory, and visual ethnography, including dialogic editing and collaborative projects between anthropology and art. It focuses on how the multimedia ethnography When the Trees Resound: Collaborative Media Research on an Italian Festival (2019) breaks the silence of earlier studies of an Italian community festival by emphasizing listening to multiple sounds and voices through field sound record…
Representing the Poetics of Place. A conversation with Steven Feld
The juxtaposition of contrasting grammatical concepts may be compared with the so-called 'dynamic cutting' in film montage, a type of cutting, which, e.g, in Spottiswoode's definition, uses the juxtaposition of contrasting shots or sequences to generate in the mind of the spectator ideas that these shots or sequences by themselves do not carry."Roman Jakobson 1K.M: 2 The poetics of place has been a central theme in your work since the 1970s.After…
Ressoar a antropologia
Questioning Acoustemology
This interview with Steven Feld explores the development and implications of acoustemology, a field of inquiry that emphasizes the role of sound in shaping cultural knowledge and experience. Rice and Feld discuss the origins of the term, its relationship to ethnomusicology and sensory anthropology, and its potential for understanding the interplay between sound, environment, and social practices. They delve into specific examples from Feld's ethn…
Sonic ethnography
Sonic ethnography explores the role of sound-making and listening practices in the formation of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The book uses a combination of text, photography and sound recording to investigate soundful cultural performances such as tree rituals, carnivals, pilgrimages, events promoting cultural heritage and more informal musical performances. Its approach demonstrates how in the acoustic domain tr…
Relations sonores Sonic Relations Relaciones sonoras
This interview with Steven Feld explores his career-long engagement with sound studies, focusing on how his work has intertwined ethnographic research, acoustic ecology, and creative practice. Feld discusses key concepts such as acoustemology, the sonic persona, and the politics of listening, illustrating them with examples from his research in Papua New Guinea, Ghana, and elsewhere. He also reflects on the ethical and methodological challenges o…
Uma Acustemologia da Floresta Tropical
Este texto tem como objetivo dar voz a uma realidade alternada, a um tipo de sensibilidade sonora que encontrei por meio de uma pesquisa antropológica sobre ecologia da linguagem, da música e acústica. Espero que, ao dar espaço às vozes marginalizadas de um lugar onde possam falar, gritar e cantar, a antropologia poderia por consequência contrariar a enraizada arrogância da autoridade colonial e imperial em alguma medida, assim como no caso da hi…
Ghana Muntie
Ghana Muntie: Recordings from the GBC Gramophone Library and Radio Ghana 1947 to 1962. 2012. The Gramophone Library of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation in cooperation with the Center for World Music, University of Hildesheim, Germany, and popular african music, Frankfurt, Germany PAMCWM 802/803. Compiled by Markus Coester in collaboration with the staff of the GBC Gramophone Library. Annotated by Markus Coester with contributions by Ebo Taylor,…
Kalanda
Etnomusicologia e Comunicação Visual
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Simpósio sobre sociomusicologia comparativa
Simpósio sobre sociomusicologia comparativa: Estrutura sonora como estrutura social
Acoustemology
Keith H. Basso (1940–2013)
Three Films by Hugo Zemp
Sound and Sentiment
This thirtieth anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment makes Steven Feld's landmark, field-defining book available to a new generation of scholars and students. A sensory ethnography set in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, among the Kaluli people of Bosavi, Sound and Sentiment introduced the anthropology of sound, or the cultural study of sound. After it was first published in 1982, a second edition, incorporating additional field research…
Doing anthropology in sound
Sound has come to have a particular resonance in many disciplines over the past decade. Social theorists, historians, literary researchers, folklorists, and scholars in science and technology studies and visual, performative, and cultural studies provide a range of substantively rich accounts and epistemologically provocative models for how researchers can take sound seriously. This conversation explores general outlines of an anthropology of sou…
Senses of Place
Sound Structure as Social Structure
Music Grooves
Aesthetics as Iconicity of Style, or 'Lift-up-over Sounding
Sound and Sentiment
In Sound and Sentiment, Steven Feld takes readers into the sonic world of the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea, exploring the intricate relationships between their unique soundscape, emotional expression, and poetic forms. Through meticulous ethnographic research, Feld demonstrates how bird song, weeping, and ceremonial songs are deeply intertwined with Kaluli cosmology, social organization, and individual experience. He analyzes how the Kaluli …
Flow Like a Waterfall'
Relations between language and music have traditionally been addressed at two distinct levels of discourse. One is phenomenal and often taxonomic, addressing the boundaries of speech and song, prosody and intonation, text and tune, paralanguage and vocables, sprechgesang and sprechstimme, and motivation toward signifier or signified. The other level is analytical and sometimes abstract, addressing the adaptation of phonological and syntactic ling…
Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra
Dialogic Editing
The Study of Ethnomusicology
Linguistic Models in Ethnomusicology
ions which a mathematician may retranslate into other abstractions of another logical order. This method of analysis is based on the completely false assumption that transcriptions of music have some sort of objective reality, and are standardized to the extent that linguistic phonetic transcription is standardized. Moreover, the author is absolved from discussing what claims this type of explanation is really making and what (if anything) it has…
Voices of the Rainforest
Research Article| January 01 1991 Voices of the Rainforest Steven Feld Steven Feld Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1991) 4 (1): 131–140. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4-1-131 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Steven Feld; Voices o…
Communication, Music, and Speech about Music
La musique comme processus de communication et les representations verbales de la communication musicale
Notes on World Beat
Research Article| January 01 1988 Notes on World Beat Steven Feld Steven Feld Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1988) 1 (1): 31–37. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1-1-31 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Steven Feld; Notes on World Beat. Public Culture 1 January 1988; 1 (1): 31–37. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1-1-31 Download citation file: Zotero Reference…
"Une si douce berceuse pour la "World Music
Comment la «world music», qui au départ n'intéresse que les universitaires, est-elle devenue un marché d'envergure mondiale? L'article s'intéresse tout d'abord à l'histoire de cette «world music» en tant que discours, raconté selon les tropes de «l'enthousiasme» et de «l'inquiétude». Il l'envisage ensuite comme une zone d'interactions et de contacts, tout autant que comme des pratiques esthétiques et commerciales. Ces dernières sont présentées à …
Themes in the cinema of Jean Rouch
This paper discusses major themes in Jean Rouch's cinema for the purpose of illuminating their interdependence with a conception of ethnographic practice. Four themes appear central to the corpus of Rouch's work. The most crucial of these is the attempt to create a filmic synthesis of the theories of Robert Flaherty and Dziga Vertov. From that synthesis follows the attempt to elaborate a method of cinéma‐vérité and cinéma‐direct; the attempt to c…
Questioning Acoustemology
This interview with Steven Feld explores the development and implications of acoustemology, a field of inquiry that emphasizes the role of sound in shaping cultural knowledge and experience. Rice and Feld discuss the origins of the term, its relationship to ethnomusicology and sensory anthropology, and its potential for understanding the interplay between sound, environment, and social practices. They delve into specific examples from Feld's ethn…
Sonic ethnography
Sonic ethnography explores the role of sound-making and listening practices in the formation of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The book uses a combination of text, photography and sound recording to investigate soundful cultural performances such as tree rituals, carnivals, pilgrimages, events promoting cultural heritage and more informal musical performances. Its approach demonstrates how in the acoustic domain tr…
Sound and Sentiment
Una Acustemología de la Selva Tropical
This text has the purpose of giving a voice to a sort of alternating reality, to a kind of resonant sensibility I have found by way of anthropological research of the ecology of language, of music and acoustics. My hope is that when granting spaces to marginalized voices from where they can speak out, scream and sing, therefore anthropology could in certain measure counteract the rooted arrogance of colonial and imperial authority, the same of hi…
Ressoar a antropologia
Senses of Place
Alternativas pós-etnomusicológicas
Texto de Steven Feld originalmente intitulado "On Post-Ethnomusicology Alternatives: Acoustemo-logy", publicado em 2017 na coletânea Perspectives on a 21st Century Comparative Musicology: Ethnomu-sicology or Transcultural Musicology?, organizada por Francesco Giannattasio e Giovani Giuriati
Resounding Participatory Ethnography
This dialogue explores issues in contemporary sonic, sensory, and visual ethnography, including dialogic editing and collaborative projects between anthropology and art. It focuses on how the multimedia ethnography When the Trees Resound: Collaborative Media Research on an Italian Festival (2019) breaks the silence of earlier studies of an Italian community festival by emphasizing listening to multiple sounds and voices through field sound record…
Linguistic Models in Ethnomusicology
ions which a mathematician may retranslate into other abstractions of another logical order. This method of analysis is based on the completely false assumption that transcriptions of music have some sort of objective reality, and are standardized to the extent that linguistic phonetic transcription is standardized. Moreover, the author is absolved from discussing what claims this type of explanation is really making and what (if anything) it has…
Discovering the Music of Africa
Le Mvet
The Perceived and the Named
The Usarufas and Their Music
Sacred Flute Music from New Guinea
The Living, Dead, and Dying
Flow Like a Waterfall'
Relations between language and music have traditionally been addressed at two distinct levels of discourse. One is phenomenal and often taxonomic, addressing the boundaries of speech and song, prosody and intonation, text and tune, paralanguage and vocables, sprechgesang and sprechstimme, and motivation toward signifier or signified. The other level is analytical and sometimes abstract, addressing the adaptation of phonological and syntactic ling…
A View from the USA
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Communication, Music, and Speech about Music
La musique comme processus de communication et les representations verbales de la communication musicale
Music of the Kaluli
Sound and Sentiment
Sound Structure as Social Structure
Introduction
The Study of Ethnomusicology
Music of the Kalui, Papua New Guinea
Commercial Recordings of Papua New Guinea Music, 1949-1983
Dialogic Editing
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Notes on World Beat
Research Article| January 01 1988 Notes on World Beat Steven Feld Steven Feld Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1988) 1 (1): 31–37. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1-1-31 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Steven Feld; Notes on World Beat. Public Culture 1 January 1988; 1 (1): 31–37. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1-1-31 Download citation file: Zotero Reference…
Sound and Sentiment. Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression
Aesthetics as Iconicity of Style, or 'Lift-up-over Sounding
Why Suya Sing
Music in Society
Themes in the cinema of Jean Rouch
This paper discusses major themes in Jean Rouch's cinema for the purpose of illuminating their interdependence with a conception of ethnographic practice. Four themes appear central to the corpus of Rouch's work. The most crucial of these is the attempt to create a filmic synthesis of the theories of Robert Flaherty and Dziga Vertov. From that synthesis follows the attempt to elaborate a method of cinéma‐vérité and cinéma‐direct; the attempt to c…
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