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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 field of Jewish Music is gaining a valuable resource which will expand knowledge about the evolving nature of music of the American Jewish experience. 

"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.

In 1990 Congress passed

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. 

UCLA Ethnomusicology alumna Carol Merrill-Mirsky (Ph.D. 1988, M.A.

Arts in Corrections was a unit within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that contracted with independent community service organizations and professional artists to provide arts programs within correctional institutions.

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 Music, a Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for the City of Los Angeles, and a longtime friend of former Mayor Tom Bradley.