As a result of graduating from a Bachelor of Music program (Boston University 1963), but subsequently observing the liberal arts experience as a teacher (Brown University 1971-75), I am a believer in education that integrates study of the arts with study of many other subjects. Not surprising for an ethnomusicologist (MA 1967 and PhD from UCLA)! The ethnomusicology program that I began here at UC Berkeley (from 1975-1976) sits comfortably in a department of music in a College of Letters and Science.
I enjoy pursuing multiple interests and seeing the big picture. I very much enjoy...
Although I retired on July 1, 2021, I intend to continue to teach a few courses and work with my graduate advisees who are completing their dissertations, while completing my own book on expert musical memory.
Over more than thirty years as a professor at Berkeley I have enjoyed working with numerous graduate students in the Department of Music as well as from departments and programs such as Anthropology, Folklore, Performance Studies, South and Southeast Asia Studies, and Near Eastern Studies. I have taught several thousand undergraduates in the large-enrollment Music in American...
