Category: Ethnomusicology Alumni

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

What are you getting your mother for Mother’s Day? A card, chocolates, flowers, perhaps a bottle of champagne? Well, what about endowing a scholarship in her name? This year, two

When Yeremiya Wright arrived at UCLA in the Fall of 2019 as a first-year student, he was unaware that a global pandemic was literally right around the corner. Nor was

Martha Gonzalez, who received her bachelor’s degree in ethnomusicology from The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, will be the keynote speaker at the school’s commencement celebration in Dixon Court North on

Martha Gonzalez has done it all. She completed a dissertation, won a Grammy, published a book, teaches at a top liberal arts college, and was awarded a 2022 MacArthur "genius" grant.

Professor Eddie Meadows makes a gift in honor of wife, Professor Emerita of Ethnomusicology Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje M.A. ‘72, Ph.D ‘78, and another to benefit undergraduates in Global Jazz Studies

Tyler Yamin received a Ki Mantle Hood Student Prize for his paper, “Creativity and Contestation in the Canopy: Reflections on the Material-Discursive Boundaries of Gibbon Song,” read at the 2018 SEMSCHC conference, and awarded at the 2019 conference.

READ: Ethnomusicology alumna Samantha Shen discusses her musical style and influences and reveals her desire to support and inspire other Asian-American artists.

READ: Ethnomusicology Alumnus Barret Hansen, aka Dr. Demento, earned his nickname in the early ’70s when another DJ called him “demented” for playing the black-humor rockabilly classic “Transfusion” by Nervous Norvus on his show. Hansen subsequently created a unique format that included novelty records old and new, song parodies, spoken-word comedy, outsider music and punk rock.