Anne K. Rasmussen (born 1959) is an American educator and ethnomusicologist. Much of her research focuses on Arab music in the US and Islamic ritual and performance.[1] She has been the director of the William & Mary Middle Eastern Music Ensemble since 1994.[2][3] Rasmussen was named the William M. and Annie B. Bickers Professor of Middle Eastern Studies in 2014.[4]
Education edit
Rasmussen received her B.A. from Northwestern University, her M.A. from the University of Denver, and her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Los Angeles.[4] She studied with A. J. Racy, Timothy Rice, Nazir Jairazbhoy, Gerard Behague, and Scott Marcus.[3]
Career edit
Rasmussen has written articles appearing in many journals, including Ethnomusicology, Asian Music, Popular Music, American Music, The World of Music, The Garland Encyclopaedia of World Music, and the Harvard Dictionary of Music. She produced four CD recordings documenting immigrant and community music in the United States. She is a former Fulbright senior scholar and served as the First Vice President of the Society for Ethnomusicology.[5]
Rasmussen has been teaching courses in ethnomusicology at The College of William & Mary since 1993,[4] where she also directs with Middle Eastern Music Ensemble.[3]
Rasmussen accompanied Indonesian Qur'an reciter Maria Ulfah during the latter's 1999 tour of the United States under the auspices of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.[6] In 2010 and 2011, she was hosted by the government of Oman and the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center for her musicology research there.[4]
Awards edit
In 2002, Rasmussen won the Jaap Kunst Prize for her work "The Qur'an in Indonesian Daily Life: The Public Project of Musical Oratory"[7] from the Society for Ethnomusicology.[8] This award is given to the best article published annually in the field of ethnomusicology. The purpose of this prize is "[t]o recognize the most significant article in ethnomusicology written by a member of the Society for Ethnomusicology and published within the previous year (whether in the journal Ethnomusicology or in another journal or edited collection)." [9] In 2011, her book Women, the Recited Qur’an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia received the Alan Merriam Prize Honorable Mention.[10] She received the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Teaching.[3]
Bibliography edit
- Women, the Recited Qur’an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010)
References edit
- ^ Knight, R. "Rasmussen, Anne K. Women, the recited Qur'an, and Islamic music in Indonesia." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries Mar. 2011: 1297. Literature Resource Center. Web. 6 Mar. 2015.
- ^ Anne K. Rasmussen - Professor of Ethnomusicology, College of William & Mary Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine at the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University. © President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2016. Accessed May 12, 2016.
- ^ a b c d Titon, Jeff T, and Timothy J. Cooley. Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples. Belmont, CA: Schirmer Cengage Learning, 2009. Print.
- ^ a b c d Anne Rasmussen - Professor (Ethnomusicology) at the College of William & Mary Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Accessed May 12, 2016.
- ^ "Anne Rasmussen | Fulbright Scholar Program". fulbrightscholars.org. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
- ^ Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Disparity and Context: Teaching Quranic Studies in North America, pg. 106. Taken from Teaching Islam. Ed. Brannon M. Wheeler. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 9780195348514
- ^ Rasmussen, Anne K. (Winter 2001). "The Qur'an in Indonesian Daily Life: The Public Project of Musical Oratory". Ethnomusicology. 45 (1): 30–57. doi:10.2307/852633. JSTOR 852633.
- ^ Jaap Kunst Prize at the Society for Ethnomusicology. Accessed May 12, 2016.
- ^ "Jaap Kunst Prize - Society for Ethnomusicology". ethnomusicology.org. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
- ^ "Anne K. Rasmussen | Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program". islamicstudies.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-07.