UCLA Ethnomusicology announces events for winter 2012

UCLA’s Anthony Seeger will present a series of lectures.

The UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology at the Herb Alpert School of Music offers a series of events for the public’s enjoyment throughout the winter quarter. Programs include performances in various genres, as well as academic lectures. Updated information and confirmation of events can be found at www.schoolofmusic.ucla.edu or by calling 310-825-8381.

For events at UCLA’s Schoenberg Music Building, all-day parking ($11) and short-term parking (payable at pay stations) are available in Lot 2 (enter the campus at Hilgard and Westholme avenues).

This show features UCLA jazz combos directed by George Bohanon, Kenny Burrell, Clayton Cameron, Charley Harrison, Charles Owens and Michele Weir.

This concert will feature the UCLA Jazz Orchestra, directed by Charley Harrison; the UCLA LatinJazz Big Band, directed by Bobby Rodriguez; and the Jazz Fusion Ensemble, directed by Kenny Burrell.

The Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy Colloquium Series presents a variety of lectures focusing on research and other issues important in the field of ethnomusicology. Lectures are free and open to the public.

’Are you related to…’ Growing up in the Seeger Family — Music, Politics and Repression 1900-1958’

’Why Study the Suyá Indians of Brazil?: Anthropology, Music and Ethnomusicology’

’What is it all for? Applying Scholarship Outside the Classroom: Indigenous Rights, Archiving, Folkways Records and Professional Organizations’

’It All Happened in Westwood! The Seegers at UCLA: Charles, Pete, Mike, Peggy and Tony in the Land of the Bruins — 1958-2012’