Category: Ethnomusicology

This year’s meeting marked the 70th anniversary of Mantle Hood’s arrival at UCLA. Hood’s visionary establishment of an institute of ethnomusicology (later to become the ethnomusicology department) made UCLA a…

The UCLA Magazine surveyed the ethnomusicology department’s preservation efforts for global cultural heritage at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.…

KOLE, an ethnomusicology alumna of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, co-wrote and produced three songs on the GRAMMY nominated album Vantablack.…

Lamontagne, who completed his dissertation in ethnomusicology under the direction of Tim Taylor in 2022, held a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the UCLA Department of History prior to joining…

Cheryl L. Keyes, professor of ethnomusicology and global jazz studies and chair of the African American studies department, was recently awarded the silver medal in the Global Music Awards for her “Sundiata Keita Overture.” The overture received its world premiere in Royce Hall on June 5 during a multimedia event, “Prelude to Juneteenth.”

The Daily Bruin interviewed Sumeet Anand Pandley, in residence at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music as a Fulbright Working Fellow in the Fall of 2024.…

The Ethnomusicology Archive holds the Bette Cox collection and is thrilled to announce that the still images relating to African American music and culture in Los Angeles are now available online on the Ethnomusicology Archive channel on California Revealed.

LOS ANGELES — With the largest Latino population in the country, it’s no surprise that California would host the first mariachi with academic and professional training outside of Mexico.  That’s why…

Our students, faculty and alums have had a busy summer. We’ve been collecting their dispatches from Italy to Mongolia, from the Hollywood Bowl to Mannheim, Germany, from South Korea to…