Category: Ethnomusicology Alumni
A Special Gift for Mother's Day
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…
For 2023 Undergraduate Student Commencement Speaker, Community is Key
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…
Musician, activist, and MacArthur Fellow Martha Gonzalez ’99 to deliver commencement address at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
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…
An Unconventional Genius: Martha Gonzalez (Ethnomusicology, 1999)
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.
Faculty Member Establishes Two New Scholarships
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
Ethnomusicology Graduate Student Wins Prize Presented at Society for Ethnomusicology Conference
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.
Daily Bruin – Alumna Uses Voice to Uplift other Asian-American Artists
READ: Ethnomusicology alumna Samantha Shen discusses her musical style and influences and reveals her desire to support and inspire other Asian-American artists.
Santa Fe New Mexican – Alumnus 'Dr. Demento' Releases New Tribute Album
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.
63rd Annual Society for Ethnomusicology Conference Features UCLA Students, Faculty and Alumni
Nearly 50 UCLA students, faculty and alumni participated in the 63rd annual Society for Ethnomusicology Conference. The meeting, the largest of its kind, gathered together 1,000 international ethnomusicologists, musicologists, anthropologists and scholars of sound studies, and featured a series of live music performances.