"Black Music and Musicians in Los Angeles" is a collection of oral history interviews with Bette Yarbrough Cox, Richard Anthony Dedeaux, Margaret Pleasant Douroux, Albert McNeil, Evelyn Freeman Roberts, and Don L.
The Aman Folk Ensemble had its roots in a UCLA student dance group called the UCLA Village Dancers. In 1963, the campus group was re-conceived by Anthony Shay (Associate Professor of Dance at Pomona College) and Leona Wood (painter and dancer), as Aman.
The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is pleased to announce that more recordings from the Archive's collections are now available online as part of the California Light and Sound Collection on the Internet Archive. California Light and Sound is a project of the
In 1992 and 1993, Professor Steven Loza taught the course Musical Aesthetics in Los Angeles. A number of these classes were recorded and the recordings became part of the Ethnomusicology Archive's Department of Ethnomusicology collection.
National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 - October 15) celebrates the histories, cultures and contributions of United States citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America. National Hispanic Heritage Month had its origins in 1968 when Congress passed
Mantle Hood (1918-2005) was a pioneer in the field of ethnomusicology and the Founder and Director of the UCLA Institute (now Department) of Ethnomusicology. Hood was on the UCLA Faculty from 1956 to 1975. "Mantle Hood was a seminal figure in the field of ethnomusicology and his influence was
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 Ethnomusicology Archive and the...
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 May 1947 – 28 September 2016) taught...
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