Below, you will find recent news releases from the Herb Alpert School of Music, as well as links to the school’s social media accounts. If you have general questions regarding public relations, image requests, or would like to be added to our mailing list, please email us at communications@schoolofmusic.ucla.edu.
Most of our faculty are available for news media interviews by arrangement. Please contact Russell Kelban, Director of Strategic Communications and Marketing, for assistance. Our faculty are leaders in their fields and include a boundary-pushing medievalist, a leading scholar of the American musical, jazz legends, masters of traditional world music instruments, a punk scholar, in-demand composers and others who are fostering transformative critical thinking about music and musical practices. Other areas of expertise include:
- African diaspora, critical race studies, social movements, nationalism, national anthem
- Rap, hip-hop, jazz, blues, funk, R&B, soul; pop music, rock n roll, Motown
- East Asia, Korean music
- Film and TV music
- Jewish music, Klezmer, Jewish liturgical music
- Music business, streaming media, technology and entertainment, copyright
- Music and politics; music, gender, and sexuality
- Opera studies
- And more…
