Nina Eidsheim
Professor of Musicology, Founder and Director of UCLA PEER Lab

Nina Eidsheim (she/her) is the author of Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice and The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music; co-editing Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies; Co-editor of the Refiguring American Music book series for Duke University Press. She received her bachelor of music from the voice program at the Agder Conservatory (Norway); MFA in vocal performance from the California Institute of the Arts; and Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California, San Diego. Eidsheim is Professor of Musicology at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and founder and director of the UCLA Practice-based Experimental Epistemology (PEER) Lab, an experimental research Lab dedicated to decolonializing data, methodology, and analysis, in and through multisensory creative practices. Current projects include a book collaboration with Wadada Leo Smith and a multi-model project that will map networks of metaphors that structure musical community, discourse, and practice.

 

UCLA Library awards grants to eight music school projects
Jan Berry Baker, Nina Eidsheim, David Lefkovitz, Arturo O’Farrill, and Kim Nguyen Tran were among the faculty winning grants to further the scope and reach of contemporary music. “Because of
UCLA lab asks: ‘What does your favorite song taste like?’
What is the taste of your favorite song? A new lab at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music explores a range of questions like that one, rejecting the premise of music
Raymond Knapp
Distinguished Professor of Musicology, Disability Studies, and Humanities; Director of the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities; Director of Graduate Studies in Musicology
Tiffany Naiman
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Jessica Schwartz
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Cesar Favila
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Joy H. Calico
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Robert Fink
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Elizabeth Randell Upton
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Jenny Olivia Johnson
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Mitchell Morris
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John Lee
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Holley Replogle-Wong
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Thomas Hodgson
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