UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music: The Meeting Room as Fieldwork Site: A Short Introduction to Survival Skills for Ethnomusicologists

Huib Schippers is the Regents' Professor at UCLA for the Fall quarter, and here to share everything he's learned in a 40-year career including initiating, supporting, and running music initiatives and institutions in The Netherlands, Australia, Nepal, The Gambia, and the US, where he helped revitalize the iconic record label Smithsonian Folkways (2016-2020). While Professor Schippers is doing a full graduate class every Tuesday afternoon, this presentation summarizes his insights into applying ethnomusicological skills.

Huib Schippers is a UC Regents’ Professor for the Fall Quarter 2022. He has a background in Indian classical music (sitar), music journalism, the record trade, music education, festival direction, research policy and leadership, and applied ethnomusicology. He was instrumental in setting up public world music schools in The Netherlands (1990-1997), founded the World Music and Dance Centre in Rotterdam (1998-2003), directed the innovative Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre in Brisbane, Australia (2003-2015), and curated and directed the iconic record label Smithsonian Folkways (2016-2020). His most important publications (with Oxford University Press) include Facing the Music (2010); Sustainable Future for Music Cultures (2016); and Music, Communities, Sustainability (2022).