Steven Feld
Steven Feld is a musician, writer, ethnomusicologist and documentary sound artist.
He has taught at Columbia University, NYU, University of California at Santa Cruz, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Pennsylvania, and he also holds a visiting appointment as a Professor of World Music at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen, Norway. Since the mid-1970s, he has studied the sound world of the Bosavi rainforest region in Papua New Guinea ... his honors include a MacArthur prize, Guggenheim Fellowship ... he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2003, he was named the 15th recipient of the Koizumi FUMIO Prize for Ethnomusicology, an award for career achievement in the field.
Feld lives in New Mexico, in the southwest United States, where he holds an appointment as Professor of Anthropology and Music at the University of New Mexico. He travels widely.
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