[iberoamericanmusiclist] UCR Invites Graduate Applications in Music

[Rogerio Budasz]

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*UCR Invites Graduate Applications in Music*

The Department of Music at the University of California, Riverside, invites
applicants for the PhD and MA/PhD programs in Ethnomusicology, Historical
Musicology, and Digital
Composition. Graduate students are prepared for careers in academia or the
public sector.

The *Digital Composition* graduate program at UC Riverside offers
innovative approaches to acoustic, electronic, and electroacoustic music
creation. This program is designed for composers and music-centered
interdisciplinary artists interested in exploring cutting-edge techniques
in composition and production. Students have opportunities to learn Max/MSP
and create electronic instruments. Areas of focus include but are not
limited to software development; music technology; and opera, musical
theater, and works for stage.

Graduate students in *Historical Musicology* at UCR receive a thorough
grounding in the discipline’s methodologies and current trends.  Students
pursuing a master’s degree are free to explore any area of research that is
of interest to them.  Those pursuing a doctorate will benefit from the
department’s conspicuous strengths in the Ibero-American music heritage.

The *Ethnomusicology* graduate program engages students in practice-based
research across a wide variety of geo-cultural areas. With strong
theoretical underpinning, it also draws from interdisciplinary strengths
across UCR including in gender and sexuality studies, Latin American
studies, hip hop studies, Indigenous studies, and Southeast Asian studies.
Among the program’s long standing assets is its innovative focus on
public-facing research and practice.

UCR’s strengths include:
- A unique program in Music Industry Studies
- Innovative composition and performance opportunities
- An interdisciplinary program in Southeast Asia: Texts, Rituals,
Performance
- A vibrant interdisciplinary community in Indigenous Studies; UCR hosts
the California Center for the Native Nations
- Hip hop faculty specialists in the Music Department and across campus,
including in Critical Dance Studies and Theatre
- Center for Iberian and Latin American Music
- Strong interdisciplinary focuses on the level of individual faculty
members as well as across the university more broadly

For more information and to apply, visit https://grad.ucr.edu/apply/

*The application deadline is December 31, 2024* (*with some flexibility for
letters of recommendation*)

Faculty:
*Rogério Budasz*: Musicologist specialized in the music of Brazil and
Portugal, lute and guitar cultures, and early opera. Interested in the
transatlantic circulation of musicians and repertories between Brazil,
Europe, and West Africa during the colonial period and nineteenth century.
*Bradley Butterworth*: Works with graduate and undergraduate students to
develop professional skill sets in the music industry. Emphasis on music
production, mixing, mastering, recording, live sound, audio networking.
*Paulo Chagas*: Music technologies, semiotics, new media, interactivity,
Brazilian music.
*Xóchitl C. Chávez*: the first tenured Chicana in UC Riverside's Music
Department. She is an Activist Scholar, feminist, musician, and dancer who
bridges academic research with Mexican Indigenous and Latino cultural
practices, advancing Public facing and transborder scholarship.
*Ian Dicke*: Composer, musician, and software designer inspired by the
intersection of technology and social-political culture.
*Walter Clark*: Musicologist specializing in the Ibero-American musical
heritage, with a particular focus on Spanish composers, performers, and
music of the last 150 years.
*Dana Kaufman*: Composer-librettist specializing in opera, musical theater,
and other works for stage, as well as in the intersections between pop
culture, queerness, and classical music.
*Samuel Lamontagne*: Ethnomusicologist of hip hop and electronic dance
music in Los Angeles, and in the African diaspora more generally. Research
in music as a medium of Pan-African solidarity that can help us trace Black
radical genealogies. Alongside H. Samy Alim and Tabia Shawel, he co-leads
the UCLA Hip Hop Initiative.
*Liz Przybylski*: Ethnomusicologist and pop music scholar focusing on hip
hop, gender in the music industry, and Indigenous popular music. Research
and practice in hybrid digital-physical ethnographic methods.
*Jonathan Ritter*: Music in the Andes, memory, violence, performance,
Afro-Hispanic and Indigenous cultures.
*Leonora Saavedra*:  Mexico, US-Mexico power relations, post-coloniality,
strategic self- representation, constructions of the indigenous, theories
of nationalism, Marxism.
*Amy Skjerseth*: Popular music and audiovisual media scholar with
additional interests in sound studies, voice studies, technology, digital
culture, avant-gardes, gender and sexuality, and practice-based research.

Located 50 miles east of Los Angeles, our 1,200-acre campus is equidistant
from the desert, mountains, and ocean, and is within easy driving distance
to most of the major cultural and recreational offerings of Southern
California.
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