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The UCLA Hip Hop Initiative Hosts Chuck D as Inaugural Artist-in-Residence --...
Wednesday March 30th, 2022 kicked off the UCLA Hip Hop Initiative’s (HHI) series, “Rap, Race, and Reality with Public Enemy’s Chuck D.” The series, will run the entire Spring Quarter and culminate with...
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Ethnomusicology Archive 60th Anniversary
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ETHNOMUSICOLOGY ARCHIVE ON ITS 60TH BIRTHDAY! On 13 October 2021, the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive celebrated the 60th anniversary of its official opening. We had hoped to hold...
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Announcing the "In Progress" Colloquium!
The "In Progress" series is an academic colloquium workshop created and organized by graduate students in the School of Music. The series was designed to address the needs of the musicology...
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Hip Hop Music from the French West Indies: The Guadeloupean Clan
Hip hop culture took root on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe in the 1980s, a former French colony where a sugar plantation economy based on slave labor was established during the 18th century...
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Sound and Music of the Zero-COVID Protests in China
Over the week since Nov 24, 2022 when 10 people locked in an apartment building died in Urumqi, Xinjiang, thousands of protesters took to the streets in multiple cities to protest the zero-COVID policy...
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Review | Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer...
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer who Reinvented Rhythm. By Dan Charnas. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. 2022. Reviewed by Aisha Gallion “So Far To Go” is...
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Music Alive in the Archive: An Exploration of Kulintang Music in the Danongan...
On 22 May 2023, the UCLA academic community and Filipinx American performing artists celebrated the launch of the Danongan Kalanduyan Collection on California Revealed.Danongan “Danny” Kalanduyan (1...
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Gugak National Middle & High School Students Visit the World Music Center
On 3 June 2024, thirty-five students and three guardians from the Gugak National High School and the Gugak National Middle School in Korea visited the World Music Center at UCLA, including the...
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Bette Cox Still Images Now Available Online On California Revealed
Bette Yarbrough Cox (1921-2017) was a music educator in Los Angeles for more than 30 years, the founder of the BEEM (Black Experience as Expressed through Music) Foundation for the Advancement of...
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66th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California...
The UCLA Ethnomusicology Department was honored to host the annual conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California and Hawai'i Chapter (SEMSCHC) on March 1-2, 2025, at UCLA. This...
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