Background
RASMUSSEN, ANNE was born in 1959.
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ANNE RASMUSSEN
Edit Profileethnomusicologist musicologist
Education
She received her Doctor of Philosophy in ethnomusicology from the University of California. She studied with A. J. Racy, Timothy Rice, Nazir Jairazbhoy, Gerard Behague, and Scott Marcus.
Career
Much of her research focuses on Arab music in the United States and Islamic ritual and performance. Anne 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 Civil Defense 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.
Currently, she teaches courses in ethnomusicology and directs with Middle Eastern Music Ensemble at The College of William & Mary.
Achievements
Membership
Danish Bar Association.
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Born
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Nationality
United States
Education
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1988
Career
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1988
Awards
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Alan Merriam Prize; Honorable Mention; the Phi Beta Kappa Award In 2002, Rasmussen won the Jaap Kunst Prize for her work "The Qur'an in Indonesian Daily Life: The Public Project of Musical Oratory" from the Society for Ethnomusicology. This award is given to the best article published annually in the field of ethnomusicology. The purpose of this prize is "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)." In 2011, her book Women, the Recited Qur’an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia received the Alan Merriam Prize Honorable Mention. She received the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Teaching.Alan Merriam Prize; Honorable Mention; the Phi Beta Kappa Award In 2002, Rasmussen won the Jaap Kunst Prize for her work "The Qur'an in Indonesian Daily Life: The Public Project of Musical Oratory" from the Society for Ethnomusicology. This award is given to the best article published annually in the field of ethnomusicology. The purpose of this prize is "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)." In 2011, her book Women, the Recited Qur’an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia received the Alan Merriam Prize Honorable Mention. She received the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Teaching.