Jessica Schwartz - The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Jessica Schwartz
Associate Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Punk and DIY)

Jessica A. Schwartz approaches research on musical representations and sonic histories of militarization and imperial violence through community-focused collaborations, movements, and creative dissent. Schwartz is the author of Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences (Duke University Press, 2021) and articles in American Quarterly, Music & Politics, Women & Musicthe Journal of American Music, Punk & Post-Punk, the Journal of Transnational American Studies, Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice StudiesAmerasia, Shima, Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music, among others, which showcase her work on American studies, Pacific studies, environmental anthropology, and Indigenous studies. As a disability scholar, Schwartz interrogates institutional, intersectional ableism and workshops radical accessibility in and beyond the classroom in courses such as “DIY: Punk Organizing as Social Justice” and “Unsettling Pedagogies: Music & Education.” Schwartz’s hosts the Punkast Series (podcast), is the cofounder/Academic Advisor of the Marshallese Educational Initiative, an Arkansas-based non-profit, and plays in noise/punk bands.

Jessica Schwartz: Professor of Punk
On a sunny Tuesday morning, students shuffling into the Jan Popper Theater were handed a five-question quiz. One of the questions asked students to listen to a short clip of a
Tiffany Naiman
Academic Administrator and Instructor - Music Industry (Critical Perspectives, Capstone Sequence, History of Popular Music), Director of Undergraduate Programs in Music Industry, Career Services
David MacFadyen
Professor - Music Industry, Musicology and Comparative Literature (Career Skills, History of Music Industry, Internships), Director of Graduate Programs
Judith Finell
Adjunct Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Forensic Musicology)
Dawnyelle Addison
Manager - Music Industry Program
Tony Brancato
Lecturer - Music Industry (Influence and Data Mining)
Jaime Nack
Lecturer - Music Industry (Music and Sustainability)
Justin Paul
Lecturer - Music Industry (DJ as Performer, Music Industry Fundamentals)
Jeffery Jampol
Lecturer - Music Industry (Artist Management and Promotion)
Stephen Doniger
Lecturer - Music and Law
Erik Madrid
Lecturer - Music Industry (Mixing)
Amy Kathryn Kuney
Lecturer - Music Industry (Songwriting)
Nicky Berger
Lecturer - Music Industry (Global Music Industry)
Tina Farris
Lecturer, Music Industry (Live Music Touring)
Lauren A. Spalding
Lecturer - Music Industry (Music and Activism, Artist Management)
Marc Cimino
Lecturer - Music Industry (Music Publishing)
Stig Edgren
Lecturer - Music Industry (Concert Promotion)
Catherine Provenzano
Assistant Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Critical and Contemporary Perspectives on Music Technology)
Allison Wolfe
Lecturer - Music Industry (Music Journalism, Audio Storytelling)
Adam Moseley
Continuing Lecturer - Music Industry (Studio Production)
Jonathan Beard
Continuing Lecturer - Music Industry (Electronic Music) and Composition
Adam Hirsch
Lecturer - Music Industry (How Music Works)
Hans Fjellestad
Lecturer - Music Industry (Music Supervision)
David Leaf
Adjunct Associate Professor - Music Industry and Musicology (Music Documentaries, Songwriting, History of Popular Music)
Lyric Jones
Lecturer - Music Industry (Songwriting)
Kathryn Frazier
Lecturer - Music Industry (Effective Communication and Self-Actualization)
Chyna Ellis
Assistant to the Chair - Music Industry Program
Michelle Moreno
Lecturer - Music Industry (Finance and Accounting)
Lee John
Lecturer - Music Industry (Rock/Pop Ensemble)
Robert Fink
Professor and Chair – Music Industry, Professor - Musicology And Humanities (History and Analysis of Popular Music, Internships And Industry Partnerships), Director Of The Berry Gordy Music Industry Center
Monica Chieffo
Lecturer - Music Industry (Influence and Data Mining)
Lauren Kop
Lecturer - Music Industry (Digital Production and Beat Design)
Don Franzen
Adjunct Professor - Music Industry (Music and Law, Forensic Musicology)
Jason Feinberg
Lecturer - Music Industry (Digital Marketing and Promotion)
Ryan Svendsen
Lecturer, Music Industry (Advanced Music Supervision)
Thomas Hodgson
Associate Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Music and Data, Global Music Industry)

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