Anne K Rasmussen
Biographic Data
| ID | 81920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne K Rasmussen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne K |
| FAMILY NAME | Rasmussen |
| SIGNATURE | RASMUSSEN A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of William and Mary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Yamaima Hilwa: As sung by Salim Doumani with Takht Naim Karakand
Heterophonic Mayhem in the Archive: The Poetics, Surprises, and Disruptions of Animating the Arab Musical Diaspora
This article describes the musical reinterpretation of Arab music, originally recorded one hundred years ago for a transnational industry of Arab, Arab American, and international record labels and recently released into the public domain. Inspired by colleagues at the Loeb Library at Harvard University, who highlight the recent American Music Modernization Act, the writers are university-based directors of Arab music ensembles who delve into thi…
Sacred Recitation and Ritual in Digital Worlds
The digital has long been a focus of popular music studies and digitally based communications have complemented traditional fieldwork methodologies since the advent of the internet. It is high time we added the realms of religious musical practice to our roster of inquiries into the digital
Islamic Music and Qur’anic Arts in the Time of the Corona Pandemic: Collaborative Research and Virtual Ethnography “in” Indonesia
This contribution describes collaborative research designed and implemented by a team of three scholar-teachers: two of us in Indonesia and one in Virginia. After a year in quarantine, each of us was challenged by the inability to continue our own ethnographic research projects on religious culture in Indonesia and the limitations on international collaboration effected by the corona pandemic. Using zoom meetings for planning and ‘virtual ethnogr…
Launching the journal, opening the forum
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Call and Response: SEM President’s Roundtable 2016, “Ethnomusicological Responses to the Contemporary Dynamics of Migrants and Refugees
The privilege of organizing the SEM President’s Roundtable in 2016 and 2017 provided an opportunity to call attention to a topic that has concerned my teaching and research since graduate school. For the first iteration of “Ethnomusicological Responses to the Contemporary Dynamics of Migrants and Refugees” I convened a panel of people whose perspectives I admire. I wanted to learn from them, and I did. As someone who has been involved with Middle…
Launching the journal, opening the forum
Launching the journal, opening the forum
Launching the journal, opening the forum
Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio
Book Review| January 01 2017 Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio. Timothy D. Taylor, Mark Katz, and Tony Grajeda, eds. 2012. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 366 pp., black and white photographs, bibliography. Cloth $99.95; paper, $27.95. Anne K. Rasmussen Anne K. Rasmusse…
Negotiating the Personal and Professional: Ethnomusicologistsl and Uncomfortable Truths
The panel, "Negotiating the Personal and Professional: Ethnomusicologists and Uncomfortable Truths," presented at the Forty-third ICTM World Conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, grew out of informal conversations common among ethnomusicologists. As practitioners in our discipline, we are involved in complex webs of experience, relationships, and representations focused around music, broadly defined. Our work is inherently social and, when in the fie…
When the Rivers Met … Middle Eastern Music, A.J. Racy; Western Orchestral Music, James Peterson
Book Review| January 01 2013 When the Rivers Met ... Middle Eastern Music, A.J. Racy; Western Orchestral Music, James Peterson When the Rivers Met ... Middle Eastern Music, A.J. Racy; Western Orchestral Music, James Peterson. 2009. A. J. Racy and James Peterson with Sohail Kaspar and Ahmad El-Asmar. One compact disc. 12 tracks. 38 minutes. Notes in English (3 pp.) Lyrichord LYRCD 7459. Anne K. Rasmussen Anne K. Rasmussen Search for other works by…
Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia
Indonesia is celebrated for its courtly arts, its beautiful beaches, its tourist attractions, and its artisan marketplace. Yet long overdue is a look at Indonesian Islam as the source of and inspiration for the arts throughout the history if its people, and in the dynamic popular performances of today. From the rhythmic grooves of dang dut, the archipelago's tenacious pop music, to the oft-quoted image of the wayang shadow puppet-theater, this bo…
Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia
Women the Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Contemporary Indonesia takes readers to the heart of religious musical praxis in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world. Anne K. Rasmussen explores a rich public soundscape, where women recite the divine texts of the Qur'an and where an extraordianry diversity of Arab-influenced Islamic musical styles and genres, also performed by women, flourishes. Based on ethnographic research begin…
Music Making in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab
Book Review| January 01 2009 Music Making in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab Music Making in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab, Ali Jihad Racy. Anne K. Rasmussen Anne K. Rasmussen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2009) 53 (1): 152–155. https://doi.org/10.2307/25653053 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Anne K…
Mainstreaming American Musical Multiculturalism
At the dawn of the twenty-first century we find ourselves in Marshall McLuhan's proverbial global village.1 The music of the informs American television jingles, kids' cartoons, and news programs, and world beat infuses pop music with badly needed energy while at the same time providing it with seductive symbols for better marketing. Yet how do we conceive of American music? How do we teach it
The Music of the Arabs
The Music of Arab Americans: A Retrospective Collection
The Qur'an in Indonesian Daily Life: The Public Project of Musical Oratory
In Indonesia, amidst a plethora of unique Southeast Asian popular and folk music, Western music, and traditional gamelan styles, the recitation of the Qur'an pervades daily life as an archetype of Muslim authenticity. Removed by thousands of miles and hundreds of years from the source of Islam, Indonesians perform and experience the Qur'an in allegedly the same way as Muslims did during the time of the prophet, Muhammad. This article distills eig…
The Music of Arab-Americans: A Retrospective Collection
Mystical Legacies: Ali Jihad Racy Performs Music of the Middle East (Accompanied by Souhail Kaspar)
La Medecine de L'ame: Le Chant de Sanaa dans la Societe Yemenite (The Medicine of the Soul: San'ani Song in Yemeni Society)
Musics of Multicultural America
Whether Good or Bad, Arabesque is the Fad [Turkey] 1993 Four parts, 30 min each. VHS Prod: Kerime Senyucel for Turkish Radio & Television Corporation. Dist: Kerime Senyucel, Doganay Sitesi, C Blok, 22…
Whether Good or Bad, Arabesque is the Fad [Turkey] 1993 Four parts, 30 min each. VHS Prod: Kerime Senyucel for Turkish Radio & Television Corporation. Dist: Kerime Senyucel, Doganay Sitesi, C Blok, 22/27 Oran yolu, TRT Kavsag, Ankara, Turkey. Tel: 90-312-490-3037. Fax:90-312-490-8928. Email: [email protected]. - Volume 32 Issue 2
Made in America: Historical and Contemporary Recordings of Middle Eastern Music in the United States
Although Americans of Middle Eastern origin—be they of Arab, Turkish, Armenian, Sephardic Jewish, Assyrian, Greek, or Central Asian heritage—comprise one of the fastest growing groups in the United States, their music may seem invisible to the American musical connoisseur. Many of the recordings of Middle Eastern American musicians are produced and distributed within community networks. Walk into an Armenian grocer in Watertown, Massachusetts or …
Theory and practice at the 'Arabic org: Digital technology in contemporary Arab music performance
The synthesizer is ubiquitous on the Arab-American musical scene. Heard at every party, and on every recording, the synthesizer sings thelingua francaof international popular music. While the facade and the body of the synthesizer consist of neutral, slick, black plastic and metal technology, the soul of the instrument, when played by Arab-American musicians, is capable of a completely indigenous, if synthetic, musical idiom. In this article I dr…
Call and Response: SEM President’s Roundtable 2016, “Ethnomusicological Responses to the Contemporary Dynamics of Migrants and Refugees
The privilege of organizing the SEM President’s Roundtable in 2016 and 2017 provided an opportunity to call attention to a topic that has concerned my teaching and research since graduate school. For the first iteration of “Ethnomusicological Responses to the Contemporary Dynamics of Migrants and Refugees” I convened a panel of people whose perspectives I admire. I wanted to learn from them, and I did. As someone who has been involved with Middle…
Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio
Book Review| January 01 2017 Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio. Timothy D. Taylor, Mark Katz, and Tony Grajeda, eds. 2012. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 366 pp., black and white photographs, bibliography. Cloth $99.95; paper, $27.95. Anne K. Rasmussen Anne K. Rasmusse…
The Qur'an in Indonesian Daily Life: The Public Project of Musical Oratory
In Indonesia, amidst a plethora of unique Southeast Asian popular and folk music, Western music, and traditional gamelan styles, the recitation of the Qur'an pervades daily life as an archetype of Muslim authenticity. Removed by thousands of miles and hundreds of years from the source of Islam, Indonesians perform and experience the Qur'an in allegedly the same way as Muslims did during the time of the prophet, Muhammad. This article distills eig…
Turath (Heritage). Simon Shaheen Performs Masterworks of the Middle East
Turath (Heritage). Simon Shaheen Performs Masterworks of the Middle East
Theory and practice at the 'Arabic org: Digital technology in contemporary Arab music performance
The synthesizer is ubiquitous on the Arab-American musical scene. Heard at every party, and on every recording, the synthesizer sings thelingua francaof international popular music. While the facade and the body of the synthesizer consist of neutral, slick, black plastic and metal technology, the soul of the instrument, when played by Arab-American musicians, is capable of a completely indigenous, if synthetic, musical idiom. In this article I dr…
Made in America: Historical and Contemporary Recordings of Middle Eastern Music in the United States
Although Americans of Middle Eastern origin—be they of Arab, Turkish, Armenian, Sephardic Jewish, Assyrian, Greek, or Central Asian heritage—comprise one of the fastest growing groups in the United States, their music may seem invisible to the American musical connoisseur. Many of the recordings of Middle Eastern American musicians are produced and distributed within community networks. Walk into an Armenian grocer in Watertown, Massachusetts or …
Whether Good or Bad, Arabesque is the Fad [Turkey] 1993 Four parts, 30 min each. VHS Prod: Kerime Senyucel for Turkish Radio & Television Corporation. Dist: Kerime Senyucel, Doganay Sitesi, C Blok, 22…
Whether Good or Bad, Arabesque is the Fad [Turkey] 1993 Four parts, 30 min each. VHS Prod: Kerime Senyucel for Turkish Radio & Television Corporation. Dist: Kerime Senyucel, Doganay Sitesi, C Blok, 22/27 Oran yolu, TRT Kavsag, Ankara, Turkey. Tel: 90-312-490-3037. Fax:90-312-490-8928. Email: [email protected]. - Volume 32 Issue 2
The Music of Arab-Americans: A Retrospective Collection
Mystical Legacies: Ali Jihad Racy Performs Music of the Middle East (Accompanied by Souhail Kaspar)
La Medecine de L'ame: Le Chant de Sanaa dans la Societe Yemenite (The Medicine of the Soul: San'ani Song in Yemeni Society)
Musics of Multicultural America
The Music of Arab Americans: A Retrospective Collection
The Qur'an in Indonesian Daily Life: The Public Project of Musical Oratory
In Indonesia, amidst a plethora of unique Southeast Asian popular and folk music, Western music, and traditional gamelan styles, the recitation of the Qur'an pervades daily life as an archetype of Muslim authenticity. Removed by thousands of miles and hundreds of years from the source of Islam, Indonesians perform and experience the Qur'an in allegedly the same way as Muslims did during the time of the prophet, Muhammad. This article distills eig…
The Music of the Arabs
Mainstreaming American Musical Multiculturalism
At the dawn of the twenty-first century we find ourselves in Marshall McLuhan's proverbial global village.1 The music of the informs American television jingles, kids' cartoons, and news programs, and world beat infuses pop music with badly needed energy while at the same time providing it with seductive symbols for better marketing. Yet how do we conceive of American music? How do we teach it
Music Making in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab
Book Review| January 01 2009 Music Making in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab Music Making in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab, Ali Jihad Racy. Anne K. Rasmussen Anne K. Rasmussen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2009) 53 (1): 152–155. https://doi.org/10.2307/25653053 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Anne K…
Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia
Women the Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Contemporary Indonesia takes readers to the heart of religious musical praxis in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world. Anne K. Rasmussen explores a rich public soundscape, where women recite the divine texts of the Qur'an and where an extraordianry diversity of Arab-influenced Islamic musical styles and genres, also performed by women, flourishes. Based on ethnographic research begin…
Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia
Indonesia is celebrated for its courtly arts, its beautiful beaches, its tourist attractions, and its artisan marketplace. Yet long overdue is a look at Indonesian Islam as the source of and inspiration for the arts throughout the history if its people, and in the dynamic popular performances of today. From the rhythmic grooves of dang dut, the archipelago's tenacious pop music, to the oft-quoted image of the wayang shadow puppet-theater, this bo…
When the Rivers Met … Middle Eastern Music, A.J. Racy; Western Orchestral Music, James Peterson
Book Review| January 01 2013 When the Rivers Met ... Middle Eastern Music, A.J. Racy; Western Orchestral Music, James Peterson When the Rivers Met ... Middle Eastern Music, A.J. Racy; Western Orchestral Music, James Peterson. 2009. A. J. Racy and James Peterson with Sohail Kaspar and Ahmad El-Asmar. One compact disc. 12 tracks. 38 minutes. Notes in English (3 pp.) Lyrichord LYRCD 7459. Anne K. Rasmussen Anne K. Rasmussen Search for other works by…
Negotiating the Personal and Professional: Ethnomusicologistsl and Uncomfortable Truths
The panel, "Negotiating the Personal and Professional: Ethnomusicologists and Uncomfortable Truths," presented at the Forty-third ICTM World Conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, grew out of informal conversations common among ethnomusicologists. As practitioners in our discipline, we are involved in complex webs of experience, relationships, and representations focused around music, broadly defined. Our work is inherently social and, when in the fie…
Launching the journal, opening the forum
Launching the journal, opening the forum
Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio
Book Review| January 01 2017 Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio. Timothy D. Taylor, Mark Katz, and Tony Grajeda, eds. 2012. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 366 pp., black and white photographs, bibliography. Cloth $99.95; paper, $27.95. Anne K. Rasmussen Anne K. Rasmusse…
Launching the journal, opening the forum
Launching the journal, opening the forum
Preview this article: Launching the journal, opening the forum, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/pi/8/1-2/pi_00002_7-1.gif
Call and Response: SEM President’s Roundtable 2016, “Ethnomusicological Responses to the Contemporary Dynamics of Migrants and Refugees
The privilege of organizing the SEM President’s Roundtable in 2016 and 2017 provided an opportunity to call attention to a topic that has concerned my teaching and research since graduate school. For the first iteration of “Ethnomusicological Responses to the Contemporary Dynamics of Migrants and Refugees” I convened a panel of people whose perspectives I admire. I wanted to learn from them, and I did. As someone who has been involved with Middle…
Islamic Music and Qur’anic Arts in the Time of the Corona Pandemic: Collaborative Research and Virtual Ethnography “in” Indonesia
This contribution describes collaborative research designed and implemented by a team of three scholar-teachers: two of us in Indonesia and one in Virginia. After a year in quarantine, each of us was challenged by the inability to continue our own ethnographic research projects on religious culture in Indonesia and the limitations on international collaboration effected by the corona pandemic. Using zoom meetings for planning and ‘virtual ethnogr…
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