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: 香蕉秀'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 faculty at Boston 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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