I bumped into an old acquaintance on campus the other day. Though it had been quite a while since I’d seen the guy, he refused to shake my hand. Read more...

When people think of jazz, they usually think of adult contemporary music or the WAVE radio station, or even a musical genre that becomes more appreciated with age. Read more...

By convention, most music fans would not directly associate the guitar with the world of classical music. After all, it would be difficult to imagine a collaboration between guitar legend Eric Clapton and equally renowned classical musicians such as Itzhak Perlman or Yo-Yo Ma. Read more...

For most American filmmakers, freedom of subject matter isn’t a problem. But for the growing genre of Iranian cinema, whose films are beginning to receive greater international acclaim, filmmakers deal with challenges in this area all the time. Read more...

You won’t find much about rap music in Jeff Chang’s new book ““ which would be pretty normal if it weren’t a history of hip-hop. Chang, who earned his master’s degree in Asian American studies from UCLA in 1995, will be taking his promotional tour of “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation” to the Kerckhoff Hall State Rooms (131-135) on Feb. Read more...

From Los Angeles to Vienna to London and back, UCLA World Arts and Cultures Professor Peter Sellars has dedicated his life to spreading artistic vision. Only returning to Los Angeles to teach his Monday night four-hour course titled “Art as Social Action,” Sellars preaches that art is not just a medium for beauty or entertainment ““ it truly can enact change. Read more...

For better or worse, the Grammy Awards can be extraordinarily difficult to watch. With an annual viewership of almost 30 million and a long, successful history, the Grammys are the oldest and most respected of any music awards show. Read more...