Music Department Faculty

Ann Lucas

Associate Professor

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Ann Lucas

Ph.D.

Contact

Lyons 408

Telephone: 617-552-1591

Email: ann.lucas@bc.edu

Education

  • B.M., Kansas State University
  • M.A., University of California Los Angeles
  • Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles

Courses

MUSA 1320: Introduction to Musics of the World

MUSA 2309: Music and Culture in the Middle East

MUSA 3342: Music and Ecstasy

MUSP 1660: BC's Middle East Astaza! Music Ensemble

Research Interests

Ethnomusicology, the music traditions of the Persian and Arabic-speaking Near East, the history of music in Iran, the relationship between cultural upheaval and musical change.

Biography

Ann E. Lucas is an ethnomusicologist who specializes in music traditions of the Persian and Arabic-speaking Near East. 听She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from UCLA, and joined the 艾可直播at 艾可直播 College after completing postdoctoral appointments at Brandeis University and Harvard University. Her primary research focuses on the history of music in Iran and the relationship between significant cultural upheaval and musical change over epochs. She is currently beginning ethnographic fieldwork on Arab music and dance, where she is researching the relationship between musical and bodily movement. These research interests are united by her inquiry into music and mysticism in Islam, which has implications for musical practice throughout the Near East in both historical and contemporary cultural contexts.

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Publications

2014 鈥淎ncient Music, Modern Myth: Persian Music and the Pursuit of Methodology in Historical Ethnomusicology.鈥� In Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 175-195.

2013 鈥淭he Creation of Iranian Music in the Age of Steam and Print, c. 1880-1914.鈥� In Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 143-157

2012 鈥淏etween Heaven and Hell: The Relationship Between Music and Islam in Persian Sufi Treatises, c. 1040-1800.鈥� Asian Music Journal 43(1): 91-130.

2007a 鈥淲omen Composers: Iran.鈥� In The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Vol. 5, ed. Suad Joseph and Afsaneh Najmabadi et al. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 5-6.

2007b 鈥淲omen, Gender and Representations of Sexualities and Gender in Music: Pre-Modern and Modern Iran.鈥� In The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Vol 5, ed. Suad Joseph and Afsaneh Najmabadi et al. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 458-460.

2006 鈥淯nderstanding Iran Through Music: A New Approach.鈥� In The Middle East Studies Bulletin 40(1): 79-89.

2005 鈥淪aving the Music: Ustad Omar Virtuoso of Afghanistan and Shirini Dahani.鈥� In The Middle East Studies Bulletin 39(2): 176-179.

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