The Ethnomusicology minor is designed for students who wish to augment their major program with a group of related courses that provide a systematic introduction to the study of world music and performance. The minor is a sequence of two quarters of the same lower-division performance course (ETHNMUS 91A-91Z), along with six academic courses, of which one is a lower-division course in Ethnomusicology (5 or M25); one must be selected from a group of foundational courses in Ethnomusicology, one must be ETHNMUS 101, and three must be upper-division electives in Ethnomusicology. Three upper-division performance courses are also required (selected from 161A-161Z).
Ethnomusicology
Minor
Ethnomusicology Plus a
Major Concentration
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Ethnomusicology Faculty
Armen Adamian
Instructor of Armenian Woodwinds; Ph.D. Student in Ethnomusicology
Supeena Adler
World Music Instrument Curator and Conservator; Director, Music of Thailand Ensemble; Adjunct Associate Professor
Francis Kofi Akotuah
Lecturer
Münir Beken
Associate Professor
Melissa Bilal
The Promise Chair in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture; Director of Armenian Music Program
Marc Bolin
Lecturer
David Bragger
Continuing Lecturer
Tara Browner
Professor
Amy Catlin- Jairazbhoy
Adjunct Professor
Nick DePinna
Adjunct Assistant Professor--Musicianship
Jesús Guzmán
Continuing Lecturer
Pejman Hadadi
Lecturer
Hermann Hudde
Lecturer
Gamin Kang
Lecturer
Abhiman Kaushal
Adjunct Professor
Cheryl L. Keyes
Professor
Mark Kligman
Professor of Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Humanities; Mickey Katz Chair of Jewish Music; Director of Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
Guangming Li
Lecturer
Steven Loza
Director of the UCLA Center for Latino Arts; Professor and Chair of Global Jazz Studies
Mohsen Mohammadi
Director of Indo-Persian Music
Anna Morcom
Professor
Soheil Nadimi
Lecturer
Behzad Nadimi
Lecturer
Rahul Neuman
Continuing Lecturer
Helen Rees
Professor
Robert F. Reigle
Lecturer
Maureen Russell
Adjunct Professor
Roger Savage
Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology
Miles Shrewsbery
Lecturer
Joko Sutrisno
Lecturer
Timothy D. Taylor
Professor
I Nyoman Wenten
Adjunct Assoc. Professor
Diane White-Clayton
Lecturer
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