Music Department | UC Santa Cruz

Specialists on the UCSC faculty include:

Amy C. Beal
20th-century American music; experimental music, post-1945

Linda Burman-Hall
Baroque music, Indonesian music, performance practices, theory

Benjamin Carson 
Cognitive musicology; music and identity

Karlton Hester 
Spontaneous and premeditated composition of the African diaspora

Anatole Leikin 
19th- and early 20th-century European music

Fredric Lieberman
American vernacular traditions

Tanya Merchant 
Musics of Central Asia and the former Soviet Union, music and gender, Baroque music; nationalism, globalization, and institutionalization of music

Leta Miller 
20th-century American experimental music, 16th-century chanson, madrigal, and C.P.E. Bach

Dard Neuman 
20th-century Hindustani music: musicians, colonialism, nationalism, technology and pedagogy

Nina Treadwell 
Italian Renaissance and early Baroque music, gender and music