Category: Musicology

Joy H. Calico, professor and chair of musicology, has received the 2026 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Award. The award recognizes UCLA faculty whose sustained commitment to mentorship has made...

Three School of Music students were honored with UCLA Library prizes in undergraduate research: Pavan Radhakrishnan (Musicology, ’26), Eden Ulrigg (Ethnomusicology, ’27) and Will Bollini (Music Industry minor, ’26). Each...

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Dean Michael Beckerman discusses sonic representations of Jewishness on and off screen.

Morgan Bates is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Musicology. A trumpet player with a wide-ranging undergraduate background—Bates began as a political science major—they earned a master’s in performance...

The Chancellor’s Council on the Arts, in partnership with the Office of Research and Creative Activities, has announced fourteen faculty-led projects that will receive seed funding this year. Four of...

From CBS, KYMA News: Judith Finell, musicologist at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, helped break down the role of AI in music production.

Have you ever heard the color green? How about tasted Miles Davis’s “Birth of the Cool”?  The phenomenon of experiencing something through unrelated senses is called synesthesia. Jenny Olivia Johnson,...

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s 2025–26 season offers something for everyone, with over 200 public concerts, recitals and panel discussions at UCLA and throughout the community. True to...

University of California Press is launching Music and Data, an annual, thematic, online-only journal, in 2026 under the co-editorship of Thomas Hodgson, University of California, Los Angeles, and Rujing Stacy Huang,...