Category: World Music Center
Spring Festival of World Music Enters Its Sixty-Fifth Year
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
Ethnomusicology Department Hosts 66th Annual Meeting of Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California and Hawai'i Chapter
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 Past is Present
The UCLA Magazine surveyed the ethnomusicology department’s preservation efforts for global cultural heritage at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
Sumeet Anand Pandey Brings Dhrupad Music, Indian Traditions to UCLA
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.
Chi Li on CBS KCAL News
Chi Li, professor of ethnomusicology, was interviewed on KCAL news about her musical past and her mastery of the Erhu, a Chinese instrument dating back more than a thousand years.
In memoriam: J.H. Kwabena Nketia, 97, UCLA leader in African musical traditions
Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia, UCLA professor emeritus of music and internationally renowned scholar and composer of African music, died March 13, 2019 at his home in Legon, near Accra, the capital of his native Ghana.
Milken Fund for American Jewish Music Launches 2018-19 Program Year
The Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music presents more than a dozen performances this academic year. Featuring special guest artists, world-class student performers and leading scholars in the field,