Middle Eastern Music in Brooklyn: The New York Nahda

Anne Rasmussen, PhD, a leading ethnomusicologist in the field of Middle Eastern Music to present a lecture on the Middle Eastern music scene in NYC.  Dr. Rasmussen is a professor at William and Mary; where she also directs a Middle Eastern ensemble.  For this presentation, Rasmussen surveys a century of dynamic Arab American music culture with a focus on New York and suggest the ways in which the last twenty years may be characterized by neo-classism and multicultural fusion.