Sample of Articles: 1974-present
2022 The Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra Project: Interview with Steven Feld by Charlotte Grabli. Slaveries & Post-Slaveries, 7. PDF
2022 Uma composicao em tres atos com Steven Feld; interview with Tatiana Bacal, Felipe Barros, and Wagner Chaves. Sociologia e Anthropologia 12(3):1-39. Portuguese PDF English PDF
2021 Representing the Poetics of Place: A Conversation with Steven Feld, by Katell Morand, Cahiers de littérature orale, n.87, Ec(h)opoétiques, Mélanie Bourlet, Marie Lorin, and Katell Morand, eds., pp. 87-95. PDF
2021 Some Questions for Acoustemology: a Conversation with Steven Feld, by Tom Rice, Sound Studies 7(1):119-132. PDF
2020 Mixing Time and Space: A conversation about the film Voices of the Rainforest by Alice Apley and Steven Feld. PDF
2020 Dear Francesco… in Verso una musicologia transculturale, Scritti in onore di Francesco Giannattasio. PDF
2020 Spectral Signage: A Conversation with Steven Feld, by Meghanne Barker and Constantine Nakassis, in Semiotic Review, 9, “Images” issue, Meghanne Barker and Constantine Nakassis, eds. PDF
2020 Ressoar a Antropologia: Uma Jam Session com Steven Feld. MANA 26(3): 1-23, 2020 PDF ENGLISH PDF
2019 Relations Sonores. Anthropologie et Sociétés, vol. 43, no 1, 2019:195-210 PDF ENGLISH PDF
2018 D’autres fêtes que les miennes: Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée : Le gisalo des Bosavi célèbre les relations entre les mondes matériel, spirituel et celui des oiseaux. Propos recueillis par Alexandre Lacroix. Philosophie, 125, Theme: Fêtes, December 2018/January 2019, p. 62. PDF
2017 On Post-Ethnomusicology Alternatives: Acoustemology, in Francesco Giannattasio and Giovanni Guiriati, eds., Ethnomusicology or Transcultural Musicology? Udine: Nota, pp. 82-98. PDF ITALIAN PDF PORTUGUESE PDF
2015 Listening to Histories of Listening: Collaborative Experiments in Acoustemology with Nii Otoo Annan, in Gianmario Borio, ed., Musical Listening in an Age of Technological Reproducibility. Farnham/Burlington: Ashgate, pp. 91-103 PDF
2015 Acoustemology, in David Novak & Matt Sakakeeny, eds, Keywords in Sound. Duke University Press. PDF
2014 Remembering Keith Basso. American Anthropologist 116(2): 484-486. PDF
2013 Field Recording: Interview, in Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle, eds., In the Field: The Art of Field Recording. Uniformbooks, pp. 201-212. PDF
2011 Acoustemic Stratigraphies: Recent Work in Urban Phonography. Sensate
2011 My Life in the Bush of Ghosts: ‘World Music’ and the Commodification of Religious Experience, in Bob W. White, ed., Music and Globalization, Indiana U. Press, pp. 40-51. PDF ITALIAN PDF
2010 Reproducing acoustic landscapes, in P. Gagliardi, B. Latour, and P. Memelsdorff, eds. Coping with the past: Creative perspectives on conservation and restoration. Firenze: Olschki, pp. 97-114. PDF
2010 Acustemologia, in G. Giuriati e L. Tedeschini Lalli, eds. Spazi sonori della musica. Palermo: L'EPOS.
Pp. 33-44. PDF
2010 Collaborative Migrations: Contemporary Art in/as Anthropology (with Virginia Ryan), in Arnd Schneider and Chris Wright, eds., Between Art and Anthropology, Berg, 2010, pp. 109-125.
2010 Remembering Claude Lévi-Strauss. Journal of Anthropological Research 66(1):1-3. PDF
2007 Gazing Through Transparency, in Virginia Ryan, Exposures: A White Woman in West Africa. VoxLox. Unpaged. PDF ITALIAN PDF
2007 Remembering Ali Farka Touré. Critical World
2005 Remembering Rouch. American Anthropologist 107(1):126-127. PDF
2004Vocal Anthropology (with A. Fox, T. Porcello, D. Samuels), in A. Duranti, ed., A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, Blackwell, pp. 321-345. PDF
2004 Doing Anthropology in Sound (with Don Brenneis), American Ethnologist 31(4):461-474. Reprinted in M. Bull, ed. Sound Studies, Routledge, 2013. PDF
2003 Tailgating. Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, v. 2. PDF
2003 Trombone. Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, v. 2. PDF
2003 Chitarre nella foresta: La nascita di una nuova musica in Nuova Guinea. EM ns 1:49-69. PDF
2002 Charlie Grooves. City and Society 14(1):59-67 (Charles Keil Festschrift). PDF
2000 A Sweet Lullaby for World Music, Public Culture 12(1):145-171. Reprinted in Arjun Appadurai, ed., Globalization, Duke University Press, 2001. PDF SPANISH PDF FRENCH PDF PORTUGUESE PDF CROATIAN PDF
2000 Melanesia, (with Denis Crowdy), in S. Broughton et. al, eds., The Rough Guide to World Music, Volume 2, Rough Guides, pp. 64-68. PDF
2000 Sound worlds, in P. Kruth and H. Stobart eds., Sound. Cambridge U. Press, pp. 173-198. PDF
1998“They Repeatedly Lick Their Own Things.” Critical Inquiry 24(2):445-472. Reprinted in Lauren Berlant, ed., Intimacy, University of Chicago Press, 2000. PDF
1997 How Extraordinary Is It? Terra Nova 2(3):115-120. PDF
1996 Waterfalls of Song, in Steven Feld and Keith Basso, eds., Senses of Place. School of American Research Press, pp. 91-135. Portions reprinted in M. Bull and L. Back, The Auditory Cultures Reader, Berg, and in David Howes, ed., Empire of the Senses, Berg. PDF
1996 pygmy POP: A Genealogy of Schizophonic Mimesis. Yearbook for Traditional Music 28:1-35. Reprinted, abridged, in G. Born and D. Hesmondhalgh eds., Western Music and Its Others, University of .California Press, 2000. PDF
1995 From Schizophonia to Schismogenesis, in George Marcus and Fred Myers, eds.,The Traffic in Culture. University of California Press, pp. 96-126. Reprinted from Charles Keil and Steven Feld, Music Grooves. Universtiy of Chicago Press, 1994. PDF
1994 Gone Reflections. American Writing 9:37-41. PDF
1994 Music and Language (with Aaron Fox). Annual Review Anthropology 23:25-53. PDF
1993 From Ethnomusicology to Eco-muse-ecology. The Soundscape Newsletter, 8: 9-13. Reprinted in Antonello Colimberti, Ecologia della musica. Saggi sul paesaggio sonoro, Donzelli, Roma 2004, pp. 43-51. PDF ITALIAN PDF
1993 The politics of amplification: notes on "endangered music" and musical equity. American Folklife Center News 15 (1):12-15. PDF
1992 Voices of the Rainforest: Politics of Music. Arena 99/100:164-177 PDF
1991 Cockatoo, Hornbill, Kingfisher, in Andrew Pawley, ed., Man and a half: essays in Pacific Anthropology and Ethnobiology in honor of Ralph Bulmer. Memoirs of the Polynesian Socieety, #48. Auckland, NZ: Polynesian Society, pp. 207-213. PDF
1991 Twenty-nine days into the war: War journal notes. Public Culture 3(2):149-153. PDF
1991 Voices of the Rainforest. Public Culture 4(1):131-140. PDF
1990 Wept thoughts. Oral Tradition 5 (2-3):241-266. Reprinted in Ruth Finnegan and Margaret Orbell, eds., South Pacific Oral Traditions, Indiana University Press, 1995. PDF
1990 Poétiques et politique du style Kaluli. Revue de musique des universités Canadiennes. 10(2):103-136. PDF
1989 Aesthetics and synaesthesia in Kaluli ceremonial dance. UCLA Journal of Dance Ethnology 14:1-16. PDF
1989 Sound, in Erik Barnouw, ed. International Encyclopedia of Communications, Oxford University Press, pp. 101-107. PDF
1988 Aesthetics as iconicity of style; or, Lift-up-over-sounding: Getting into the Kaluli Groove, Yearbook for Traditional Music 20:74-113 + cassette. PDF
1988 Notes on World Beat. Public Culture1(1):31-37. PDF
1987 Dialogic Editing. Cultural Anthropology 2(2):190-210. Reprinted in A.Robben and J. Sluka, eds., Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader, 2nd edition, Wiley, 2012. PDF
1986 Sound as a symbolic system: the Kaluli drum, in C. Frisbie, ed., Explorations in Ethnomusicology in honor of David McAllester. Information Coordinators, pp.147-58. Reprinted in David Howes, ed. The Varieties of Sensory Experience, U. Toronto Press, 1991. PDF SPANISH PDF
1986 Reves Sonores, spectra series. Dreamworks 5(1):34-5. PDF
1986 Orality and consciousness, in Yoshihiko Tokumaru and Osamu Yamaguti, eds., The Oral and Literate in Music. Academia Music, pp. 18-28. PDF
1984 Sound structure as social structure. Ethnomusicology 28(3): 383-409. PDF ITALIAN PDF PORTUGUESE PDF
1984 Communication, music, and speech about music. Yearbook for Traditional Music 16: 1-18. PDF
1982 Hard Words: a Functional Basis for Kaluli Discourse. (with Bambi Schieffelin), in D. Tannen, (ed.). Analyzing discourse: text and talk. Georgetown U. Press, pp. 351-371. Reprinted in Donald Brenneis and Ronald MacCauley, eds., The Matrix of Language, Westview, 1996. PDF
1981 Flow Like a Waterfall: the Metaphors of Kaluli Music Theory. Yearbook for Traditional Music 13: 22-47. PDF
1976 Ethnomusicology and Visual Communication. Ethnomusicology 20(2): 293-325. PDF PORTUGUESE PDF
1974 Linguistic Models in Ethnomusicology. Ethnomusicology 18(2): 197-217. PDF