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Professor and Chair of Musicology
Joy H. Calico Joy H. Calico is professor of musicology and chair of the Department of Musicology. Her scholarship focuses on interdisciplinary Cold War cultural politics, opera since 1900, and Arnold Schoenberg. Her…
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Professor of Musicology, Founder and Director of UCLA PEER Lab, Director of Graduate Studies in Musicology
Nina Eidsheim Nina Eidsheim (she/her) is the author of Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice and The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music; co-editing Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies; Co-editor of the Refiguring American…
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Associate Professor - Musicology and Humanities, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Musicology
Elizabeth Randell Upton Elizabeth Randell Upton’s research focuses on European vocal music pre-1600, medievalism in music, and early music revivals. Her first book, Music and Performance in the Later Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan,…
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Our Faculty
Joy H. Calico
Professor and Chair of Musicology
Nina Eidsheim
Professor of Musicology, Founder and Director of UCLA PEER Lab, Director of Graduate Studies in Musicology
Cesar Favila
Associate Professor - Musicology (On Sabbatical 2025-26)
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
Thomas Hodgson
Associate Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Music and Data, Global Music Industry)
Jenny Olivia Johnson
Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence, Associate Professor - Musicology
Mark Kligman
Mickey Katz Professor of Jewish Music and Professor - Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Humanities, Director of Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
Raymond Knapp
Distinguished Professor of Musicology, Disability Studies, and Humanities, Director of the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities
Elisabeth Le Guin
Emerita
David Leaf
Adjunct Associate Professor - Music Industry and Musicology (Music Documentaries, Songwriting, History of Popular Music)
Tamara Levitz
Professor
David MacFadyen
Professor - Music Industry, Musicology and Comparative Literature (Career Skills, History of Music Industry, Internships), Director of Graduate Programs
Kristi Brown Montesano
Lecturer in Musicology
Mitchell Morris
Professor Emeritus - Musicology
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
Catherine Provenzano
Assistant Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Critical and Contemporary Perspectives on Music Technology)
Holley Replogle-Wong
Continuing Lecturer in Musicology, Program Director of Center for Musical Humanities
Jessica Schwartz
Associate Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Punk and DIY)
Elizabeth Randell Upton
Associate Professor - Musicology and Humanities, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Musicology
Marylin Winkle
Continuing Lecturer - Musicology, Director of Early Music Ensemble
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Conference on Trauma and Disability in the Arts Brings Artists and Scholars Together
Have you ever heard the color green? How about tasted Miles Davis’s “Birth of the Cool”? The phenomenon of experiencing something through unrelated senses is called synesthesia. Jenny Olivia Johnson,
2025-26 Season Brings Exciting Programming to Los Angeles and Beyond
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s 2025–26 season offers something for everyone, with over 200 public concerts, recitals and panel discussions at UCLA and throughout the community. True to
Thomas Hodgson Launches Music and Data Journal with UC Press
University of California Press is launching Music and Data, an annual, thematic, online-only journal, in 2026 under the co-editorship of Thomas Hodgson, University of California, Los Angeles, and Rujing Stacy Huang,