Musicology

Mitchell Morris

Professor Emeritus - Musicology

Mitchell Morris taught at UCSD and McGill University before coming to UCLA in 1997. Among his many specialties are: Music, Gender, and Sexuality; Opera Studies; Music at the last fin-de-siecle; Russian and Soviet Music; American popular song; Ecomusicology; Film and TV Music. He is a co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical and the author of The Persistence of Sentiment: Display and Feeling in Popular Music of the 1970s. A frequent collaborator with the Los Angeles Opera, he is also an active working librettist with premieres in the U.S. and Mexico.

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Marylin Winkle

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Kerry Brunson

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Joy H. Calico

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Lily Shababi

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Candace Hansen

Raymond Knapp

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Catherine Provenzano

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Thomas Hodgson

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David MacFadyen

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Robert Fink

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Michele Yamamoto

Jenny Olivia Johnson

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Emmie Head

James Ace

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Mark Kligman

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John Lee

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Kristen Martinez

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Molly Hennig

Michael Beckerman

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Sarah Davachi

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Racquel Bernard

Elisabeth Le Guin

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Tiffany Naiman

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