David Bragger
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Old-Time String Band Ensemble

Continuing Lecturer and Director, Old-Time String Band Ensemble

David Bragger is a performer and teacher of old-time music on a variety of early American stringed instruments. He is a world-renowned fiddle instructor who teaches workshops and private lessons around the globe. David is the artistic director of the Santa Barbara Old-Time Fiddlers’ Convention which is now in its 52nd year. David is also the founder of the Old-Time Tiki Parlour where he documents the greatest living musicians of traditional American music.

Bragger was a professional music video director for Sony Europe and Atlantic Records while earning his B.A. in Religious Studies from UCSB. After graduation, he spent time in India recording the folktales and music of itinerant Indian street magicians. He then went on to study the art of old-time fiddle and banjo with his mentors Mel Durham and Tom Sauber. This led to visits around the country with many of the remaining old-timers including Clyde Davenport, Joe Thompson, Benton Flippen, Will Keys and Charlie Acuff.

For the past decade, David has released thirty DVDs and CDs through Tiki Parlour Recordings and continues to bring prominent traditional musicians out to Los Angeles for concerts, workshops and master classes with the UCLA Old-Time String Band Ensemble. He strongly believes that our local community should have the opportunity to interact and learn from these traditional masters. David is currently producing a modern anthology of American folk music.

David also plays fiddle, mandolin, banjo and guitar for his traditional old-time stringband Sausage Grinder and recently recorded “King’s Lament,” the first ever fiddle duet album in the old-time genre. He can also be heard on recordings and at live shows with mainstream rock artists including Bad Religion’s Greg Graffin and Social Distortion. David regularly contributes music to Paula Poundstone’s podcast and he performed the featured fiddle and banjo music in the Hollywood western “Gone are the Days.” David also composes experimental electronic music and has two modular synth albums set for release in late 2024.

 

 

Robert F. Reigle
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology (Musical Cultures of the World: Europe and the Americas)
Gamin Kang
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Korea Ensemble
Francis Kofi Akotuah
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music and Dance of Ghana Ensemble
John Lee
Manager, Ethnomusicology & Musicology Departments
Diane White-Clayton
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of African American Music Ensemble
Armen Adamian
Instructor of Armenian Woodwinds; Ph.D. Student in Ethnomusicology
Donna Armstrong
Assistant to the Chair - Ethnomusicology
Pejman Hadadi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble
Behzad Nadimi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble
Mohsen Mohammadi
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Marc T. Gaspard Bolin
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Cheryl L. Keyes
Professor - Global Jazz Studies and Ethnomusicology (Contemporary Jazz, Hip Hop)
Chi Li
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of China Ensemble
Steven Loza
Professor - Global Jazz Studies, Ethnomusicology, Director of the UCLA Center for Latino Arts
Abhiman Kaushal
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of India Ensemble
I Nyoman Wenten
Adjunct Associate Professor - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Bali Ensemble
Münir Beken
Associate Professor - Ethnomusicology (World Music Theory and Composition), Director of Music of Turkey Ensemble
Roger Savage
Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology
Helen Rees
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Soheil Nadimi
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Joko Sutrisno
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Java Ensemble
Anna Morcom
Mohindar Brar Sambhi Chair of Indian Music, Professor - Ethnomusicology
Jesús Guzmán
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Mexico Ensemble
Timothy D. Taylor
Professor - Ethnomusicology (Popular Musics, World Music, Cultural Theory)
Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology (Folk and Classical Music of South Asia; Bollywood)
Janice Mautner Markham
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Rahul Neuman
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Mark Kligman
Mickey Katz Chair of Jewish Music and Professor - Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Humanities, Director of Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
Guangming Li
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Supeena Adler
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Miles Shrewsbery
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Maureen Russell
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