Jessica Schwartz - The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Jessica Schwartz
Associate Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Punk and DIY)

Jessica A. Schwartz approaches research on musical representations and sonic histories of militarization and imperial violence through community-focused collaborations, movements, and creative dissent. Schwartz is the author of Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences (Duke University Press, 2021) and articles in American Quarterly, Music & Politics, Women & Music, the Journal of American Music, Punk & Post-Punk, the Journal of Transnational American Studies, Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, Amerasia, Shima, Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music, among others, which showcase her work on American studies, Pacific studies, environmental anthropology, and Indigenous studies. As a disability scholar, Schwartz interrogates institutional, intersectional ableism and workshops radical accessibility in and beyond the classroom in courses such as “DIY: Punk Organizing as Social Justice” and “Unsettling Pedagogies: Music & Education.” Schwartz’s hosts the Punkast Series (podcast), is the cofounder/Academic Advisor of the Marshallese Educational Initiative, an Arkansas-based non-profit, and plays in noise/punk bands.

Jessica Schwartz: Professor of Punk
On a sunny Tuesday morning, students shuffling into the Jan Popper Theater were handed a five-question quiz. One of the questions asked students to listen to a short clip of a...
Justin Paul
Lecturer - Music Industry (DJ as Performer, Music Industry Fundamentals)...
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Jason Feinberg
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Tony Brancato
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David Leaf
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Adam Hirsch
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Hans Fjellestad
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Jeffery Jampol
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Lauren Kop
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Lyric Jones
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Catherine Provenzano
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Jaime Nack
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Stephen Doniger
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Robert Fink
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Don Franzen
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Erik Madrid
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Thomas Hodgson
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David MacFadyen
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Judith Finell
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Amy Kathryn Kuney
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Michelle Moreno
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