Ann Elizabeth Lucas

Title

ACLS New Faculty Fellow in Music and Anthropology

Anthropology
Music

Expertise

Ethnomusicology
Modernity and Musical Change
Music of the Middle East
History of Persian Music
Music and Emotional Experience

Profile

Dr. Lucas is an ethnomusicologist who specializes in the music history of the Middle East and the Persian-speaking world. Her primary research focuses on the history of music in Iran, comparative analysis between Persian, Arabic, and Turkic music culture, and the affect of modernization on indigenous music in Iran. Dr. Lucas has also done ethnographic fieldwork on music in Iran, Egypt, and Turkey. In addition to being an academic, Dr. Lucas is also an avid music performer. She performs Persian and Arabic music using the nay, a reed flute that exists in the Middle East in several different variations. She currently performs with several small Arabic ensembles in the Boston area.

Degrees

University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D.

University of California, Los Angeles, M.A.

Kansas State University of Agriculture and Applied Science, B.M.

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Contact

Email:

aelucas@brandeis.edu

Awards and Honors

Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2012)

Theodore and Jane Norman Award (2012)

New Faculty Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (2011)

Fulbright Hays Dissertation Fellowship (2006)

UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship (2004)

American Institute of Iranian Studies Fellowship (2003)

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) (2002)

Courses Taught

ANTH	63a	Non-Western Musical Traditions
MUS	27b	Music and Ecstasy
MUS	88b	Middle East Music Ensemble
MUS	153a	Music and Culture in the Middle East
MUS	180b	Proseminar in Ethnomusicology
MUS	181b	Fieldwork Seminar in Ethnomusicology

Scholarship

Lucas, Ann E. "From Qajar Court to National Stage: The Basis for Iranian Music in the First Age of Globalization." Circuits and Networks: Muslim Interactions in the First Age of Globalization. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013 (forthcoming)

Lucas, Ann E, James Gelvin and Nile Green. "Between Heaven and Hell: The Relationship Between Music and Islam in Persian Sufi Treatises, c. 1040-1800." Asian Music Journal 23. 1 (2012): 55-84. (forthcoming)

Lucas, Ann E, Suad Joseph and Afsaneh Najmabadi et al.. "Women Composers: Iran." The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. 2011.

Lucas, Ann E. "Illicit Trade of Musical Documents: Experiences in Historical Research on the Music of Iran." British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference. Tremough, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Lucas, Ann E. "Music Fit for a King: The Changing Function of Music from the Timurid to the Safavid Court.." The International Association of Iranian Studies Annual Meeting,. Toronto, Canada

Lucas, Ann E. "The Relationship between Modernity and Modality in Traditional Iranian Music." Biennial meeting of the International Council of Traditional Music (ICTM). St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada.. 18 July 2011.

Lucas, Ann E. "Music and Procession in Public Festival Spaces: The Case of Mahashivratri in India." Society for Ethnomusicology National Conference. Middletown, Connecticut

Lucas, Ann E. "The Comprehensive Book of Cycles: Finding a New Perspective on an Unusual Text about Traditional Persian Music c. 1900." Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California Chapter Meeting. Santa Barbara, California

Lucas, Ann E., Suad Joseph and Afsaneh Najmabadi et al.. "Women, Gender and Representations of Sexualities and Gender in Music: Pre-Modern and Modern Iran." The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. 2007.

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