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CV Steven Feld [email protected]

Education Ph.D. 1979 Indiana University, Anthropological Linguistics B.A. 1971 Hofstra University, cum laude, highest honors in Anthropology

Teaching Positions 2005-2014 Distinguished Prof. of Anthropology and Music, U. of New Mexico 2003-2005 Professor of Anthropology and Music, University of New Mexico 2002-2003 Professor of Music, Columbia University 1997-2001 Professor of Anthropology, New York University 1995-1997 Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz 1985-95 Associate & Professor of Anthropology and Music, U. of Texas at Austin 1980-85 Assistant Professor of Communications, University of Pennsylvania

Visiting Positions 1993 Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Sydney 2001-2006 Visiting Professor, Grieg Music Academy, University of Bergen 2007-2012 Visiting Professor, Institute of Music, University of Oslo 2009 Ernest Bloch Visiting Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley 2012 Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Honors/Fellowships/Awards Elliott Skinner Prize, for Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra, 2013 Prix Bartók, Paris International Film Festival, for A Por Por Funeral for Ashirifie, 2010 Charles Seeger Lecture, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2009 Ernest Bloch Lectures in Music, University of California, Berkeley, 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 2003-2004 Fumio Koizumi Prize for Ethnomusicology, 2003 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, 1991-1996 Chicago Folklore Prize, for Music Grooves (with Charles Keil), 1995 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow, elected 1994 Distinguished Alumni Award, Indiana University, 1992 J.I. Staley Prize, for Sound and Sentiment, 1991 NEH Scholar, School of American Research, 1989-90

Key Research Projects Anthropology of Sound in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea (Since 1975) Schizophonia and its Discontents: “World Music” in the 80s & 90s (since 1986) Acoustemology of Bells in Europe & Africa, (since 2000) Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra, Ghana (since 2004)

Books 1982 Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; 2nd edition 1990; 3rd edition, Duke University Press, 2012. J.I. Staley Prize 1991.

1994 Music Grooves: Essays and Dialogues. (with Charles Keil) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chicago Folklore Prize 1995.

1996 Senses of Place. (editor, with Keith Basso) Santa Fe: SAR Press.

1998 Bosavi-English-Tok Pisin Dictionary. (with Bambi B. Schieffelin, Hoido: Degelo:, Ho:nowo: Degili, Kulu Fuale, Ayasilo Ha:ina, and Da:ina Ha:waba:). Pacific Linguistics C-153; Australian National University Press.

2002 Bright Balkan Morning: Romani Lives and the Power of Music in Greek Macedonia. Photographs by Dick Blau, text by Charles and Angeliki Keil, CD by Steven Macedonia. Photographs by Dick Blau, text by Charles and Angeliki Keil, CD by Steven Feld. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.

2003 Jean Rouch: Ciné-Ethnography. (editor and translator) University of Minnesota Press.

2007 Exposures: A White Woman in West Africa. Photographs by/of Virginia Ryan, text by Steven Feld. Santa Fe: Voxlox.

2010 Skyros Carnival. Photographs by Dick Blau, text by Agapi Amanatidis and Panayotis Panopoulos, CD and DVD by Steven Feld. Santa Fe: Voxlox.

2012 I Suoni dell’albero (book with 2 CD; editor, with Nicola Scaldaferri). Udine: Nota.

2012 Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana. Duke University Press. Elliott Skinner Prize, Association for Africanist Anthropology, 2013.

Articles c. 75 articles since 1974 for edited books and journals, including Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, Annual Review of Anthropology, Public Culture, Critical Inquiry, Studies in Visual Communication, Visual Anthropology, Oral Tradition, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Yearbook for Traditional Music

Translations c. 25 article and book translations in Greek, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, German, Serbian, and Russian.

Audio and Video/Film and Radio c. 50 audio, video/film, and radio programs for US, Australian and European networks; c.40 LPs, cassettes, CDs, DVDs, festival installations; 4 feature length documentary films, plus numerous shorts, at www.vimeo.com/voxlox.

Public Presentations c.200 invited lectures, performances, installations, and screenings at c. 100+ universities, museums, galleries, festivals, auditoria in the USA, UK, Australia, France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Japan, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Netherlands, Ghana, South Africa, Hong Kong.