The MA/PhD in Ethnomusicology investigates music in cultural and social contexts. In preparing students for careers in studying global music communities, our program assists students in understanding music as social practice from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Students are introduced to the intellectual history of the field and its paradigmatic shifts, and research methodology in preparation for ethnographic fieldwork. Our ethnomusicology program seeks to prepare students for careers in the academy, public sector, the music industry, and/or cultural heritage policy-making. We also offer seminars in select global music cultures as well as topics, which examine music as related to gender, politics, religion, economics, philosophy, aesthetics, and musical practice.
Ethnomusicology
Master of Arts / PhD
Global Music
Cultures
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music is thrilled to announce the opening of the Gramian-Emrani Center for Iranian Music. As described by donor Haleh Emrani, the new center “will focus on the research and study of the music of Iran” and build on the school of music’s Iranian Music Program. The center opens with a concert on October 20, featuring acclaimed artists and esteemed faculty, and is free and open to the public with an RSVP.
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SUNDAY, OCT. 20, 6:00 P.M.
SCHOENBERG HALL
(link in bio)
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#ThisisUCLAmusic #IranianMusic
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music is thrilled to announce the opening of the Gramian-Emrani Center for Iranian Music. As described by donor Haleh Emrani, the new center “will focus on the research and study of the music of Iran” and build on the school of music’s Iranian Music Program. The center opens with a concert on October 20, featuring acclaimed artists and esteemed faculty, and is free and open to the public with an RSVP.
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SUNDAY, OCT. 20, 6:00 P.M.
SCHOENBERG HALL
(link in bio)
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#ThisisUCLAmusic #IranianMusic
Is Opera Relevant Today? Naomi André thinks so. Join us for a lecture and discussion with Naomi André, the David G. Frey Distinguished Professor at UNC Chapel Hill as André talks about bold new work and reimagining the operatic canon.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 4:00 P.M.
LANI HALL
https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/robert-m-stevenson-lecture-with-naomi-andre/
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#ThisisUCLAmusic #opera #blackoperaresearchnetwork #newmusic
Is Opera Relevant Today? Naomi André thinks so. Join us for a lecture and discussion with Naomi André, the David G. Frey Distinguished Professor at UNC Chapel Hill as André talks about bold new work and reimagining the operatic canon.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 4:00 P.M.
LANI HALL
https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/robert-m-stevenson-lecture-with-naomi-andre/
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#ThisisUCLAmusic #opera #blackoperaresearchnetwork #newmusic
Welcome to the 2024-25 Gluck Fellows at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music!
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Since 1996, our Gluck Fellows Program has provided FREE community concerts in schools, libraries, senior centers and other nontraditional venues all around Los Angeles County. Thanks to a generous grant from the Max H. Gluck Foundation, top-tier students in The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music are selected every year to perform in chamber ensembles or as solo artists to offer educational performances across a diversity of styles.
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Visit our Gluck Fellows Program page for more information or to request a Gluck Fellows Performance. Link in bio.
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#ThisisUCLAmusic #GluckFellows #UCLA #Music
Welcome to the 2024-25 Gluck Fellows at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music!
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Since 1996, our Gluck Fellows Program has provided FREE community concerts in schools, libraries, senior centers and other nontraditional venues all around Los Angeles County. Thanks to a generous grant from the Max H. Gluck Foundation, top-tier students in The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music are selected every year to perform in chamber ensembles or as solo artists to offer educational performances across a diversity of styles.
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Visit our Gluck Fellows Program page for more information or to request a Gluck Fellows Performance. Link in bio.
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#ThisisUCLAmusic #GluckFellows #UCLA #Music
We are thrilled to welcome GRAMMY-Award nominated director and producer JAMES DARRAH as the new directer of Opera UCLA and professor on faculty at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music! Darrah has directed operatic productions for some of the most notable arts organizations in the world. Since 2021 he has been the artistic director and chief creative officer of Long Beach Opera and will continue in that role. Welcome James Darrah!
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Read the press release. Link in bio.
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#ThisisUCLAmusic #opera #UCLA #voice
We are thrilled to welcome GRAMMY-Award nominated director and producer JAMES DARRAH as the new directer of Opera UCLA and professor on faculty at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music! Darrah has directed operatic productions for some of the most notable arts organizations in the world. Since 2021 he has been the artistic director and chief creative officer of Long Beach Opera and will continue in that role. Welcome James Darrah!
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Read the press release. Link in bio.
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#ThisisUCLAmusic #opera #UCLA #voice
Catherine Provenzano, assistant professor of musicology and music industry at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, was one of ten scholars across the country to win a Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award. - Check out her profile to learn about her work on Auto-Tune and the emotional core of music technology.
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link in bio
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#ThisisUCLAmusic #UCLA #musicology #musicindustry #autotune
Catherine Provenzano, assistant professor of musicology and music industry at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, was one of ten scholars across the country to win a Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award. - Check out her profile to learn about her work on Auto-Tune and the emotional core of music technology.
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link in bio
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#ThisisUCLAmusic #UCLA #musicology #musicindustry #autotune
UCLA has been the number one public university eight years in a row. We at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music are thrilled to be a part of such a dynamic university as the UC`s ONLY school of music.
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Watch the video, and keep an eye out for our very own Mariachi de Uclatlán and Jesús Guzmán! Link in bio.
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#UCLA #Music #ThisisUCLAmusic
UCLA has been the number one public university eight years in a row. We at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music are thrilled to be a part of such a dynamic university as the UC`s ONLY school of music.
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Watch the video, and keep an eye out for our very own Mariachi de Uclatlán and Jesús Guzmán! Link in bio.
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#UCLA #Music #ThisisUCLAmusic
Spectrum One News interviewed our very own Mariachi de Uclatlán, led by Jesús "Chuy" Guzmán. Check out the music and the interviews and the history of our storied mariachi ensemble, the first of its kind to be created at an American university.
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link in bio.
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#Mariachi #ThisisUCLAmusic #UCLA #Music #Mexico
Spectrum One News interviewed our very own Mariachi de Uclatlán, led by Jesús "Chuy" Guzmán. Check out the music and the interviews and the history of our storied mariachi ensemble, the first of its kind to be created at an American university.
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link in bio.
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#Mariachi #ThisisUCLAmusic #UCLA #Music #Mexico
Clora Bryant, c. 1950s. Attended UCLA in 1945, the ONLY female trumpet player to perform with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker and a member of the all-female jazz bands, International Sweethearts of Rhythm and the Queens of Swing.
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Part of the Bette Cox collection at the Ethnomousicology Archive at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
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The ETHNOMUSICOLOGY ARCHIVE just made over 1400 still images from the Bette Cox collection relating to African American music and culture in Los Angeles available online. Read more about American jazz trumpeter Clora Bryant and the other pictures featured here in the article in the Ethnomusicology Review.
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link in bio.
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#ThisIsUCLAmusic #ethnomusicology #UCLA #jazz #trumpetplayer
Clora Bryant, c. 1950s. Attended UCLA in 1945, the ONLY female trumpet player to perform with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker and a member of the all-female jazz bands, International Sweethearts of Rhythm and the Queens of Swing.
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Part of the Bette Cox collection at the Ethnomousicology Archive at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
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The ETHNOMUSICOLOGY ARCHIVE just made over 1400 still images from the Bette Cox collection relating to African American music and culture in Los Angeles available online. Read more about American jazz trumpeter Clora Bryant and the other pictures featured here in the article in the Ethnomusicology Review.
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link in bio.
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#ThisIsUCLAmusic #ethnomusicology #UCLA #jazz #trumpetplayer
David Castañeda
“I enjoyed the connections that I made with my colleagues who have now become family, seeing my approach as a researcher develop substantially in such a short amount of time, and most of all the opportunity to grow as an instructor and educator.” – David Castañeda Ph.D. ’21 | Ethnomusicology
A stream of high-profile artists and scholars from around the world have energized and inspired our students, helping to transform their educational experience. Among them are J.H. Kwabena Nketia, considered Africa’s premier musicologist/ethnomusicologist; Akin Euba, a Nigerian composer, musicologist, and pianist; MacArthur Fellow Steven Feld, an American ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, and linguist, who worked for many years with the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea; Judith Becker, professor emerita of ethnomusicology, University of Michigan; Mark Slobin, the author or editor of books on Afghanistan and Central Asia, eastern European Jewish music, film music, and ethnomusicology theory; Chano Dominguez, award-winning Spanish-born pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator, and Hossein Omoumi, a scholar and teacher of Persian traditional music, among others.
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