Steven M. Friedson

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book

• Steven M. Friedson. (2009). Remains of Ritual: Northern Gods in a Southern Land (Winner of the 2010 Alan P. Merriam Prize for Outstanding Book in Ethnomusicology).
• Steven M. Friedson. (1996). Dancing Prophets: Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing.

Book Chapter

• Friedson, S.M. (2024). "Music at the Edge: American Torture and African Trance". Egalitarian Dynamics: Liminality, and Victor Turner’s Contribution to the Understanding of Socio-historical Process. New York, New York, Berghahn Books. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/KapfererEgalitarian
• Angela Hobart and Bruce Kapferer, eds.. (2005). "Where Divine Horsemen Ride: Trance Dancing in West Africa." In Angela Hobart and Bruce Kapferer, eds., Aesthetics in Performance: Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience..
• Daniel Avorgebdor, ed.. (2003). "The Disease of the Prophets: The Musical Construction of Clinical Reality." In Daniel Avorgebdor, ed., The Interrelatedness of Music, Religion, and Ritual in African Performance Practice..
• Penelope Gouk, ed.. (2000). "Dancing the Disease: Music and Trance in Tumbuka Healing." In Penelope Gouk, ed., Music and Healing in Cultural Contexts ..

Book Review

• Kofi Agawu. (2001). African Rhythm: A Northern Ewe Perspective.
• Marina Carol Laderman and Marina Roseman, eds.. (1997). The Performance of Healing.
• Corinne A. Kratz. (1995). Affecting Performance: Meaning, Movement, and Experience in Okiek Women's Initiation.

Interview published in the book series "World Music Pedagogy"

• Friedson, S.M. (2021). "Teacher Feature" (Interview with Steven Friedson). World Music Pedagogy, Vol. VII: World Music in Higher Education. 7 New York City, New York, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-World-Music-Pedagogy-Series/book-series/WMP

Journal Article

• Friedson, S.M. (2019). "The Unbearable Weight of Music: The Intermezzo". 35 (5) London, Royal Anthropological Institute.
• Friedson, S.M. (2019). "The Music Box: Songs of Futility in a Time of Torture". Ethnomusicology. 63 (2) Champaign, IL, University of Illinois Press.

Video and Audiovisual Material

• Steven M. Friedson. (1997). "Ingoma Dance of the Ngoni People" The JVC/Smithsonian Folkways Anthology of Music and Dance of Africa, Vol. 3.
• Steven M. Friedson. (1997). Funeral Gourd Music of the Tumbuka The JVC/Smithsonian Folkways Anthology of Music and Dance of Africa, Vol. 3.
• Steven M. Friedson. (1997). Malipenga Kazoo Bands The JVC/Smithsonian Folkways Anthology of Music and Dance of Africa, Vol. 3.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research

• Friedson, S.M. (Principal), "Center for Sacred Music, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana," sponsored by UNT Faculty Success, State, $2000 Funded. (2023 - 2023).
• Friedson, S.M., "The Weaponization of Music," sponsored by College of Music, University of North Texas, $53898 Funded. (2021 - 2021).
• Friedson, S.M., Mei, Y. (Supporting), "Chinese Traditional Music Initiative," sponsored by China Venture Fund, University of North Texas, $6018 Funded. (2018 - 2018).
• Friedson, S.M. (Principal), "Being Musical: Studies in Ontomusicology," sponsored by Faculty Development Leave, University of North Texas, Funded. (2013 - 2013).