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Articulating Landscapes – Non-Human Articulation in Field Recording
The term articulation used to describe how human societies manifest discourses, solidify political moments, intervene in the fabric of reality, and create culture has been strained in the past couple...
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Mantle Hood papers now available online
The Ethnomusicology Archive is happy to announce that the Mantle Hood Papers are available online on UCLA Library Digital Collections. This collection focuses on Hood's early papers and correspondence...
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Freetown Soundscape: Chosan’s Love Song to Sierra Leone
Cellphone video footage captured one of my trips across Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital city, in the back of a khekhe (a covered motorized tricycle). My husband, Jerry, was candidly explaining...
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Stormzy vs. Mozart: Moral Panic against UK Rap in the British Media
“The British media just got me beefing Mozart. I do not want to beef Mozart. Mozart is my guy. Peace.” StormzyArguably one of the most prolific figures in UK grime, Stormzy has become a British...
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Exploring a Means of Musical Exchange in New Mexico – A Pilot Workshop
SettingIn October of 2019 a group from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland arrived in New Mexico for a pilot musical workshop and cultural exchange with the teachers and students of the St....
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Representation and Black & Hip Hop Culture in Reservation Dogs
A key feature of American popular culture and everyday life is the misrepresentation of Native peoples. From mascots to Hollywood to rap music, denigrating representations of Indigenous peoples...
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PRAFODIVI: The Final Writings of PHASE 2
On December 12, 2019, the world mourned the loss of PHASE 2, a venerable pioneer of aerosol art and an unsung cultural figure of the modern era. The New York Times eulogized PHASE as an...
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The Oral History Project of American Jewish Music
The field of Jewish Music is gaining a valuable resource which will expand knowledge about the evolving nature of music of the American Jewish experience. The Oral History Project of American Jewish...
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Lost in the World(s): Bon Iver, Kanye West, and Generic Environmentalisms
A Tale of Two ArtistsThe reception of Bon Iver is a tale of sequestration in Justin Vernon’s native rural Wisconsin. The result of Vernon’s isolation was For Emma, Forever Ago, a stunning 2008...
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Kanye Goes West: The Move to Wyoming and “New Gilded Age” Conservatism
It was September of 2019 when the Sheridan Press, a small-town Wyoming newspaper, announced Kanye West’s upcoming Sunday Service at a nearby museum. In a mere instant, Wyomingites across the...
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Royal Thai Consulate-General Delegation visit to Department of Ethnomusicology
On Thursday 24 February 2022, the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology was honored to welcome Consul-General Tor Saralamba of the Royal Thai Consulate-General, together with his colleagues Consul Areeya...
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‘For the ecology of sound’. New perspectives on the sound in the Marlene...
The 1952-born Canadian artist, photographer and poet Marlene Creates has been exploring “the relationship between human experience, memory, language and the land, and the impact they have on each...
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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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