Most cited papers in Theater, Performance, and Music History
What are the most cited papers in Theater, Performance, and Music History?
The most cited paper in Theater, Performance, and Music History is "Theorizing the moving image." (Noël Carroll, 1996), with 522 citations. Next come "Dramaturgy and Social Movements: The Social Construction and Communication of Power*" (443) and "James Douglas of the Pouch" (381).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 63 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Theorizing the moving image. Noël Carroll | 1996 | 522 |
| 2 | Dramaturgy and Social Movements: The Social Construction and Communication of Power* Robert D. Benford, Scott A. Hunt · Sociological Inquiry | 1992 | 443 |
| 3 | James Douglas of the Pouch Helen Brock · Medical History | Apr 1974 | 381 |
| 4 | Husbands and wives Scott Johnson · Contemporary Family Therapy | Dec 1993 | 379 |
| 5 | Music and Identity Simon Frith | 5 Jul 2017 | 355 |
| 6 | Beyond Pleasure: Exploring the Eudaimonic Entertainment Experience Werner Wirth, Matthias Höfer, Holger Schramm · Human Communication Research | 5 Sep 2012 | 270 |
| 7 | Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman: Voice and the Embodiment of a Costly Performance Averil Y. Clarke · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews | Sep 2010 | 269 |
| 8 | Studying Popular Music Susan McClary · Popular Music | May 1991 | 248 |
| 9 | Doing Cultural Studies: Youth and the Challenge of Pedagogy Henry Armand Giroux · Harvard Educational Review | Sep 1994 | 232 |
| 10 | Queering the pitch: The new gay and lesbian musicology Mario J. S. G. Champagne · Musicology Australia | 1994 | 205 |
| 11 | Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music Ian Reilly · The Journal of Popular Culture | 10 Sep 2008 | 200 |
| 12 | Popular Culture as Oppositional Culture: Rap as Resistance Theresa A. Martinez · Sociological Perspectives | Jun 1997 | 184 |
| 13 | Music and everyday life Simon Frith · Critical Quarterly | Apr 2002 | 171 |
| 14 | Fractured identities: injury and the balletic body Steven P. Wainwright, Clare Williams, Bryan Stanley Turner · Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine | 2 Dec 2004 | 147 |
| 15 | Genres, Subgenres, Sub-Subgenres and More: Musical and Social Differentiation Within Electronic/Dance Music Communities Kembrew McLeod · Journal of Popular Music Studies | Mar 2001 | 145 |
| 16 | Classical music as enforced Utopia Daniel Leech‐Wilkinson · Arts and Humanities in Higher Education | Jul 2016 | 139 |
| 17 | The Ideologically Driven Critique Elijah Anderson · American Journal of Sociology | May 2002 | 139 |
| 18 | THE TRACHEAL BRONCHUS Burnett Schaff, George L. Baum · Journal of Thoracic Surgery | Feb 1957 | 135 |
| 19 | Places and patterns of drug use in the Scottish dance scene ALASDAIR J. M. FORSYTH · Addiction | Apr 1996 | 121 |
| 20 | Carnivalesque Protest and the Humorless State Michael Lane Bruner · Text and Performance Quarterly | Apr 2005 | 121 |
| 21 | TENNIS ELBOW—A REAPPRAISAL M D Chard, B. L. Hazleman · Lara D. Veeken | 1989 | 121 |
| 22 | Ballet and pain: reflections on a risk-dance culture Krista McEwen, Kevin Young · Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health | Jul 2011 | 116 |
| 23 | The Impact of Televised Speeches and Foreign Travel on Presidential Approval Dennis M. Simon, Charles W. Ostrom · Public Opinion Quarterly | 1989 | 116 |
| 24 | Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music Ian Reilly · The Journal of Popular Culture | 7 Mar 2007 | 116 |
| 25 | The State of Research on Performance in Africa Margaret Thompson Drewal · African Studies Review | Dec 1991 | 115 |
| 26 | Staging Scenes or Plays? Theatrical Revivals of "Old" Greek Drama in Antiquity Sebastiana Nervegna | 2007 | 114 |
| 27 | Music, Talent, and Performance: A Conservatory Cultural System Paul A. Haack · Music Educators Journal | Nov 1988 | 113 |
| 28 | The "I" of the camera essays in film criticism, history, and aesthetics William Rothman | 2004 | 113 |
| 29 | “This voice which is not one”: Amy Winehouse sings the ballad of sonic blue(s)face culture Daphne A. Brooks · Women & Performance a journal of feminist theory | Mar 2010 | 112 |
| 30 | The small world of shakespeare’s plays James Stiller, Daniel Nettle, Robin Dunbar · Human Nature | Dec 2003 | 111 |
| 31 | "Sing Againe Syren": The Female Musician and Sexual Enchantment in Elizabethan Life and Literature Linda Phyllis Austern · Renaissance Quarterly | Oct 1989 | 109 |
| 32 | Retrospective Cultural Consecration in Popular Music Vaughn Schmutz · American Behavioral Scientist | 15 Jun 2005 | 106 |
| 33 | The rhetoric of the American western myth Janice Hocker Rushing · Communication Monographs | Mar 1983 | 106 |
| 34 | The Laughter Prescription Dexter Louie, Karolina Brook, Elizabeth Pegg Frates · American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine | 27 Sep 2014 | 105 |
| 35 | Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical Marlis Schweitzer · Journal of American History | 22 May 2012 | 102 |
| 36 | :Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern David Krasner · The American Historical Review | Jun 2009 | 100 |
| 37 | Varieties of habitus and the embodiment of ballet Steven P. Wainwright, Clare Williams, Bryan Stanley Turner · Qualitative Research | 31 Oct 2006 | 99 |
| 38 | Paradigmen der akteurszentrierten Soziologie Manfred Gabriel | 2004 | 98 |
| 39 | Theater in America: The Impact of Economic Forces, 1870-1967 Richard Moody, Jack Poggi · Journal of American History | Dec 1969 | 97 |
| 40 | “Race records” and “hillbilly music”: institutional origins of racial categories in the American commercial recording industry William G. Roy · Poetics | Jun 2004 | 97 |
| 41 | The Hollywood Studio System Thomas R. Cripps, Douglas Gomery, Graham Petrie · Journal of American History | Mar 1987 | 96 |
| 42 | Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era. Randall M. Miller, Thomas R. Cripps · The American Historical Review | Jun 1994 | 95 |
| 43 | “Do You Know . . . ?”: The Jazz Repertoire in Action Morris B. Holbrook · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews | Jul 2010 | 94 |
| 44 | Public rituals and community power: St. Patrick's day parades in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1841–1874 Sallie A. Marston · Political Geography Quarterly | Jul 1989 | 94 |
| 45 | Aural Snapshots of Musical Life: The 1948 recordings Linda Barwick, Allan Marett · ANU Press eBooks | Jun 2011 | 93 |
| 46 | Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies Howard Spring · Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation | Sep 2005 | 93 |
| 47 | Rasaesthetics Richard Schechner · TDR/The Drama Review | Sep 2001 | 92 |
| 48 | Philharmonic: A History of New York's Orchestra Timothy Robert Clifford · Music Educators Journal | Mar 1976 | 90 |
| 49 | White Power Music and the Mobilization of Racist Social Movements Ugo Corte, Bob Edwards · Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter) | 2008 | 89 |
| 50 | Structures of the Jazz Age: Mass Culture, Progressive Education, and Racial Discourse in American Modernism. Linda W. Wagner-Martin, Chip Rhodes · Journal of American History | Mar 2000 | 89 |
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