Ethnomusicology

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 year's conference held special significance as it marked the 70th anniversary of Mantle Hood's arrival at UCLA, a momentous occasion honoring the visionary founder of the then Institute, now Department of Ethnomusicology. 

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ETHNOMUSICOLOGY ARCHIVE ON ITS 60^TH BIRTHDAY!  

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 Prajunpanich Forastieri and Mr. Kenny Young, Assistant to the Consul-General.

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 (1950s) and was donated to the Archive in 2011 by Hood's sons, Marlowe, Maiyo, Mitro, and Madé.&n

When UCLA announced on March 13 that we would transition to remote instruction for the entirety of spring quarter, I had to quickly reconceptualize my graduate seminar. Like so many other instructors at my institution and elsewhere, I needed a crash course in the mechanics of online teaching.

In honor of the grand re-opening of the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, the World Music Center at UCLA and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Department of Ethnomusicology presented a day-long sympo

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