Holley Replogle-Wong received her PhD in Musicology from UCLA in 2009. She teaches courses on film music, American musical theater, and popular music in the Department of Musicology at UCLA, and is the Program Director of the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities. Holley is a regular speaker for the LA Opera’s educational outreach programs, including the Opera for Educators and Discover Opera series. Holley has music directed youth music and musical theater programs in Los Angeles at Crossroads, Harvard Westlake, and the Creative Artists Theater Space, and she sings with various Los Angeles-based vocal ensembles and for the occasional film soundtrack. Publications include contributions to Echo: A Music-Centered Journal (2005), The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical (2011), The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical (2019), and The Oxford Handbook of the Television Musical (2022).
Holley Replogle-Wong
Lecturer in Musicology, Program Director of Center for Musical Humanities
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