The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s department of ethnomusicology offers a range of different ensembles spanning multiple regions throughout the world, each with a rich musical dynamic and sound.
OAKLAND — The lone, somber notes of India Cooke’s violin echoed against the walls of Lisser Hall on Sunday, telling a story that had been passed down in her family for three generations. “This was the ...
An unusual musical entertainment is to take place tonight at 8 o'clock at the Harvard Union, when Rosamond Johnson and Taylor Gordon present a program of Negro spirituals. Gordon and Johnson for many ...
(RNS) — ‘Fisk Jubilee Singers are artists and do not limit themselves to just Negro spirituals,’ its director said. ‘There’s versatility in our choice of music when we have celebrations.’ (RNS) — A ...
When the first enslaved Africans landed on American shores in 1619, their musical traditions landed with them. Four centuries later, the primacy of African American music is indisputable, not only in ...
Finding the right formula to solve a problem takes time and commitment. So when something works, we want to copy it. Since 1996, the Negro Spiritual Scholarship Foundation has offered high-school ...
A drawing of composer William Dawson in 1935 by Aaron Douglas. Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony, long neglected, has received a new recording. Stokowski conducted four back-to-back performances of the ...
OAKLAND — The lone, somber notes of India Cooke’s violin echoed against the walls of Lisser Hall on Sunday, telling a story that had been passed down in her family for three generations. “This was the ...