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Abstract

The digital has long been a focus of popular music studies and digitally based communications have complemented traditional fieldwork methodologies since the advent of the internet. It is high time we added the realms of religious musical practice to our roster of inquiries into the digital.

Author Biography

Anne K. Rasmussen is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Bickers Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the College of William & Mary where she is founder and director the William & Mary Middle Eastern Music Ensemble, established in 1994. Her publications encompass music of the Middle East and Islamicate worlds, with a focus on Indonesia and the Arabian Peninsula, and music and community in a multicultural United States. Recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships for research in Indonesia, a Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Fellowship for research in Oman, and a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, her award-winning publications include numerous articles and chapters, and four books: Women’s Voices, the Recited Qur’an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia, (U California Press 2010; Indonesian-language, Mizan 2019); Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia, co-edited with David Harnish (Oxford UP 2011); The Music of Multicultural America: Performance, Community, and Identity in the USA, co-edited with Kip Lornell. (Schirmer 1997; UP Mississippi 2016) and Music of Arabia, co-edited with Issa Boulos and Virginia Danielson (Indiana UP 2021).

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