Selected Publications

• 2021. “The Aesthetics of Proximity and the Ethics of Empathy” In Berger, Harris, Friedling Reidel and David VanderHamm, Eds. Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures.  Oxford and NY: Oxford University Press.
• 2017 The Splash of Icarus: Theorizing Sound Writing/Writing Sound Theory. In Kapchan, Deborah, ed. Theorizing Sound Writing. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, p. 1-24.
• 2017 Listening Acts: Witnessing the Pain (and Praise) of Others. In Kapchan, Deborah, ed. Theorizing Sound Writing. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, p. 277-293.
• 2017 The Sound Body. In Helmi Järviluoma, Annemette Kirkegaard, Jan Sverre Knudsen and Jonas Otterbeck, Editors. Researching Music and Censorship. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• 2016 Listening Acts, Secular and Sacred: Sound Knowledge among Sufi Muslims in Secular France. In Karin van Nieuwkerk, Mark Levine, and Martin Stokes, Eds. Islam and Popular Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press.
• 2016 Moroccan Female Performers Defining the Social Body. In Brenda Farnell, editor, Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement. Reprinted from Gender On the Market, University of Pennsylvania Press.
  
• 2016 Slow Activism: Listening to the Pain and Praise of Others. International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.
  
• 2015 Body. In Matt Sakakeeny and David Novak, Eds. Keywords in Sound Durham: Duke University Press.
• 2014 Intangible Rights: Cultural Heritage in Transit. In Kapchan, Deborah, ed. Cultural Heritage in Transit. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, p. 1-24.
• 2014 Intangible Heritage in Transit: Goytisolo’s Rescue and Moroccan Cultural Rights. In Kapchan, Deborah, ed. Cultural Heritage in Transit. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, p. 177-194.
• 2013 The Aesthetics of the Invisible: Sacred Music in Secular (French) Places. In Theater Drama Review: The Journal of Performance Studies 57 (3) : 132-147.
  
• 2012 Reflecting on Encounters in Morocco: Meditations on Home, Genre, and the Performance of Everyday Life. In Moroccan Encounters, David Crawford and Rachel Newcomb, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• 2009 Learning to Listen: The Sound of Sufism in France. The World of Music, special issue, Music for Being, edited by Helena Simonett. 51 (2): 65-90.
  
• 2009 Singing Community/ Remembering in Common: Sufi Liturgy and North African Identity in Southern France. International  Journal of Community Music. 2(1): 9- 23.
  
• 2008 The Promise of Sonic Translation: Performing the Festive  Sacred  in Morocco. American Anthropologist  Vol  110  (4) : 467-483. [Reprinted in Frank Korom, editor, The Anthropology of Performance pp. 217-233. Wiley-Blackwell. Reprinted as well in Practicing Sufism: Sufi Politics and Performance in Africa, ed. Abdelmajid Hannoum. London: Routledge, 2016.]
• 2008 The Festive Sacred and the Fetish of Trance. Gradhiva, 7: 52-67.
• 2007 A Colonial Relation Not My Own: Coming Home to Morocco and France Ethnologia Europaea issue on “Double homes”, edited by Orvar Lofgren and Regina Bendix. Volume 37.
• 2006 Talking Trash: Performing Home and Anti-Home in Austin’s Salsa Culture American Ethnologist. August 33 (3): 361-377.
  
• 2006 Women, Gender and How Women Use Language: North Africa. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures.
• 2005 Performance in Culture. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Article # 03039).
• 2002 Possessing Gnawa Culture: Displaying Sound, Creating History in an Unofficial Museum. Music and Anthropology, volume 7.
• 2002 Translating Folk Theories of Translation. In, Translating Culture, edited by Paula Rubel and Abraham Rosman. Berg Publishers.
• 2002 Nashat: The Gender of Musical Celebration in Morocco. In Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean, edited by Tullia Magrini, Series “Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology”, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• 2002d Performance. In Feintuch, Burt, ed. Common Ground: Keywords for the Study of Expressive Culture. Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
• 2001 Performing Depth: Translating Moroccan Culture in Modern Verse. In, Colors of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East, edited by Sherifa Zuhur, Cairo:  American University in Cairo Press.  
• 2001a Gender on the Market in Moroccan Women’s Verbal Art: Performative Spheres of Authority. In Linda Seligmann, ed. Market Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• 2000 Zajal. In Méditerranéens 11 (Winter 1990-2000): 45-47.
• 2000a Following the Entranced Ones: Gnawa Performances and Trance in Rabat.  Garland Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern Folklore. Garland Publishers.
• 1999 Theorizing the Hybrid: Introduction (with Pauline Strong), special issue Journal of American Folklore. Kapchan, Deborah and Pauline Turner Strong, eds.
  
• 1998 La Citation dans le Discours d’une Herboriste au Marché Maghrebin. Edition sur Mimesis et Médiations, Traverser les Mondes, sous la direction de S. Ossman. Hermès, no. 22.
• 1996 Performance. Journal of American Folklore 108 (430) 479-508.
  
• 1994 Moroccan Women Performers Defining the Social Body. Journal of American Folklore.
• 1993 Moroccan Women’s Body Signs. In Katharine Young, Ed. Bodylore, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.