Bonnie Schneider

After completing having a Bachelor of Music (Boston University in 1963) and then observing broad-based education as professor (Brown University, 1971-1975), i am now fully committed to an approach to education that is integrated that includes the study of art and other fields of study. This shouldn't come as a surprise from an ethnomusicologist, who earned a MA from 1967 and an Ph.D. in the field of ethnomusicology from UCLA. My ethnomusicology degree, which was started at UC Berkeley in 1975-1976, is comfortably located in the department of music in the College of Letters and Science. It's great to be involved in several interests. I also like seeing the bigger perspective. It's great teaching graduate as well as undergraduate students. I am a published author of three books: Music in India: the Classical Traditions; Thinking Musically as well as Music in Japan, Experiencing Music and Expressing Culture. Then I will alternate between periods that are primarily academic activities and periods of administrative duties (I am Chair of Department of Music from 1983 to 1988, Dean of Undergraduate Advising in 1992-1998, and Chair of College of Letters and Science Deans 1994-98; Chair of the Group of Asian Studies from 1999, and am now back as Chair of Department of Music).