Steven Feld

Steven Feld
Born (1949-08-20) August 20, 1949 (age 75)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
Known forStudy of poetics, emotion, song, and dialogical theories developed from work in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea
AwardsFellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994), Charles Seeger lecturer, Society for Ethnomusicology (2009)
Scientific career
FieldsAnthropology, Linguistics, Ethnomusicology, Poetics
InstitutionsUniversity of New Mexico, University of Texas, Austin, University of California, Santa Cruz, New York University, University of Pennsylvania
Thesis (1979)
Doctoral advisorAlan P. Merriam
Websitewww.acousticecology.org/feld/

Steven Feld (born August 20, 1949) is an American ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, and linguist, who worked for many years with the Kaluli (Bosavi) people of Papua New Guinea. He earned a MacArthur Fellowship in 1991.