2539 Schoenberg Music Building
Box 951657
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1657
Tel: (310) 206-3033
Fax: (310) 206-4738



Department of Ethnomusicology
  Home | Contact Us | The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music | UCLA Arts | Music Blog | Music Library | Summer Programs | UCLA | Links | Site Map
         
     
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
   

   
   

   
 
     
 

Tara Browner

Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology and American Indian Studies
  
     
 

Native North American music and dance; Native North American contemporary music; musical imagery of Indians in popular culture; indigenous concepts of music theory; American music.

  
     
 

Ph.D. Music History: Musicology, The University of Michigan; M.M. Percussion Performance, The University of Colorado, Boulder; B.A. California State University, Sacramento

  
       
  tbrowner@ucla.edu    

 

 
     
 

Tara Browner is the author of Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-Wow (University of Illinois Press, 2002) and is currently working on a musical edition drawn form pow-wow performance for the series Music in the United States of America (MUSA). She has also published in several major journals including Ethnomusicology, The Journal of Musicological Research, and American Music. In addition to her scholarly activities, she is a pow-wow dancer in the Women's Southern Cloth tradition and a professional percussionist and timpanist.

 

Back to faculty list.