Category: Ethnomusicology Archive
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…
Ethnomusicology Archive Adds African American History Photographs to Online Collection
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.
Music Alive in the Archive: An Exploration of Kulintang Music in the Danongan Kalanduyan
The Ethnomusicology Archive holds one of the world’s great collections of audio and video recordings documenting kulintang gong music and dance around the world. They are now freely accessible to…
Ethnomusicology Doctoral Candidate Blair Black Named Dance/USA 2023 Archiving and Preservation Fellow
Dance/USA selects fellows each year for students of archiving and preservation to receive mentorship and hands-on experience working with dance research collections and assisting artists and dance companies to preserve…
UCLA Ethnomusicology Professor Named Bakë-Jairazbhoy Chair for Indian Ocean Studies
Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy, adjunct professor of ethnomusicology at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, has been appointed the inaugural holder of the Bakë-Jairazbhoy Chair for Indian Ocean Studies at the…
Six-time GRAMMY Winning 'Ukulele Virtuoso, Daniel Ho, Performs for Archive's 60th Anniversary
Daniel Ho, a six-time GRAMMY Award winner, eleven-time GRAMMY Award nominee, six-time Taiwanese Golden Melody Award winner, and recipient of multiple Hawaiian Music awards will present a virtual concert of…
"Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings" now available
Presenting 58 field collections held by the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, this diverse and comprehensive resource features thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence, and ephemera from around the world.
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.
UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive re-opens following renovation
Already home to a world-renowned collection of materials dedicated to the study of musical traditions from around the globe, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music is re-opening its Ethnomusicology Archive with a newly expanded space on campus.