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Four pictures showing different musical acts in the World Cup half time show.
Music Industry
July 16, 2026

The 2026 World Cup brought a renewed focus on entertainment. Tiffany Naiman, director of the Berry Gordy Music Industry Center, explores why music has...

Research
July 9, 2026

Modern music didn’t develop along a single path—and it certainly wasn’t confined to Europe and the United States. Hermann Hudde‘s recent publications trace the...

Librarians Doug Daniels and Matthew Vest Doug posing with their Librarian of the Year award plaques.
Music Library
July 8, 2026

Music research librarian Matthew Vest has been honored with UCLA’s 2026 Librarian of the Year Award, given by the Librarians Association of the University...

Music Performance, Education and Composition
July 8, 2026

Available on Apple Music, Spotify, and Bandcamp, Nick DePinna’s new work “Sentiments of JUSTICE, HUMANITY, COURAGE, and PEACE” takes its name from a 1775...

man sitting next to a bookshelf being interviewed by CBS Los Angeles.
Music Industry
June 23, 2026

The music icon helped to transform the music industry, working with the likes of Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, Alecia Keys and many more. Musicologist...

Students and Alumni
June 18, 2026

Commencement invites us to look in two directions at once: backward toward the accomplishments that brought us here and forward toward the possibilities that...

Ethnomusicology
June 17, 2026

Kenzell Huggins interviewed ethnomusicology professor Tim Taylor about his book Making Value: Music, Capital and the Social for Rice University’s blog, Camp Anthropology.

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Pictures in four quadrants representing the different disciplines of artists of the graduating 2026 class.
Students and Alumni
June 12, 2026

The Chancellor’s Council on the Arts featured four members of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s class of 2026 in its magazine celebrating...

Three news anchors with the news title "Musicians raise concerns over use of copyrighted songs to train AI models".
Musicology
June 12, 2026

Channel News Asia: Adjunct Musicologist Professor Judith Finell speaks upon AI-generated musical compositions, and the threat and opportunity that is afforded for human composers...

Woman in gray shirt playing violin next to a woman in a gray jacket playing piano in front of a shelf of books.
Music Performance, Education and Composition
June 7, 2026

From The Armenian Mirror-Spectator: Ani Sinanyan (2022), currently touring internationally as a solo violinist for the Piano Rhapsody concert series, took time from her...

Photo of man sitting at piano in a blue blazer, looking at camera and smiling
School of Music
June 3, 2026

Michael Beckerman spoke to scientists about research on the benefits of music for treating Alzheimer’s and promoting health.

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Podcast screenshot that shows a picture of a man at a piano with the words "Follow Your Dream - Music" and the name Tamir Hendelman
Global Jazz Studies
June 2, 2026

The Follow Your Dream podcast with Robert Miller features Tamir Hendelman in this episode of his podcast connecting world-class artists in peer-to-peer interviews.

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