Category: Ethnomusicology

BRUIN GRAMMY NOMINATIONS! Congratulations to faculty and alums of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music who have been nominated for a 2026 Grammy Award.  Music Industry faculty member Erik

From the LA Sentinel: The Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience hosted an event telling the little-known story of African Americans who performed and recorded Yiddish and

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

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,

In 2025, Helen Rees, professor and director of the World Music Center, will become chair of the Department of Ethnomusicology at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music for the

(New York Times) Dean Michael Beckerman is the artistic advisor for the for the Bard Music Festival Martinů and His World. Martinu, a Czech composer who thrived on the artistic and

Launched in 2016, the Lisbon Conference explores the diverse musical traditions of Asia. The eighth annual conference “Chinese Music and Musical Instruments: Embracing the Wide Variety of Asian Music and

With vocals and instruments echoing through Royce Hall, The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music helped bring to life the June 5 inauguration ceremony for UCLA’s seventh chancellor, Julio Frenk.

This year marks the 65th year of the Spring Festival of World Music (May 4 through June 7, 2025). Since its founding under ethnomusicologist Mantle Hood, who began teaching at