Walter Zev Feldman is a leading researcher in both Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music. He is author of the books Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition, and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire (Berlin, 1996), and Klezmer: Music, History, & Memory (Oxford, 2016), and has contributed the entries "Ottoman Music," and "Klezmer Music" to the New Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians. In 2004 he co-directed the successful application of the Mevlevi Dervishes of Turkey as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity for UNESCO.
His current research interests include the relation of rhythmic cycle (usul) and melody in
Ottoman music, and gesture in Ashkenazic Jewish and other dance cultures.
A selection of older articles and papers is available for download at the academia.edu website.