| Improvised music after 1950: Afrological and Eurological perspectives GE Lewis Black music research journal, 91-122, 1996 | 816 | 1996 |
| A power stronger than itself: The AACM and American experimental music GE Lewis University of Chicago Press, 2008 | 628* | 2008 |
| Too many notes: Computers, complexity and culture in voyager GE Lewis Leonardo Music Journal 10, 33-39, 2000 | 556 | 2000 |
| The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies B Piekut, G Lewis Oxford University Press, 2016 | 202* | 2016 |
| Improvised music after 1950: Afrological and eurological perspectives GE Lewis Black Music Research Journal, 215-246, 2002 | 144 | 2002 |
| Interacting with latter-day musical automata GE Lewis Contemporary Music Review 18 (3), 99-112, 1999 | 122 | 1999 |
| Gittin'to Know Y'all: Improvised Music, Interculturalism and the Racial Imagination GE Lewis Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation 1 (1), 2004 | 101* | 2004 |
| Teaching improvised music: An ethnographic memoir GE Lewis Arcana: Musicians on music 1, 78, 2000 | 83 | 2000 |
| Experimental music in black and white: The AACM in New York, 1970–1985 G Lewis Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies, 50-101, 2004 | 70 | 2004 |
| Afterword to ‘Improvised music after 1950’: The changing same G Lewis The other side of nowhere: Jazz, improvisation, and communities in dialogue …, 2004 | 53 | 2004 |
| Introduction: On Critical Improvisation Studies G Lewis, B Piekut The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, 2016 | 47 | 2016 |
| The virtual discourses of Pamela Z GE Lewis Journal of the Society for American Music 1 (1), 57-77, 2007 | 45 | 2007 |
| Mobilitas animi: Improvising technologies, intending chance GE Lewis parallax 13 (4), 108-122, 2007 | 43 | 2007 |
| Foreword: After Afrofuturism GE Lewis Journal of the Society for American Music 2 (2), 139-153, 2008 | 41 | 2008 |
| Why Do We Want Our Computers to Improvise? GE Lewis The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music, 123, 2018 | 37 | 2018 |
| Singing Omar's song: A (re) construction of great black music GE Lewis Lenox Avenue: A Journal of Interarts Inquiry 4, 69-92, 1998 | 37 | 1998 |
| Improvisation and pedagogy: Background and focus of inquiry GE Lewis Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation 3 (2), 2007 | 35 | 2007 |
| Critical Responses to ‘Theorizing Improvisation (Musically)’ GE Lewis Music Theory Online 19 (2), 2013 | 30 | 2013 |
| A subsumption agent for collaborative free improvisation A Linson, C Dobbyn, GE Lewis, R Laney Computer Music Journal 39 (4), 96-115, 2015 | 26 | 2015 |
| Studying US music in the twenty-first century CH Garrett, CJ Oja, GE Lewis, GS Magee, AL Madrid, S Tucker, R Fink Journal of the American Musicological Society 64 (3), 689-719, 2011 | 26 | 2011 |
