Bonnie Schneider

After graduating with having a Bachelor of Music (Boston University, 1963) as well as observing the liberal arts as a professor (Brown University 1971-1975), i am now strongly devoted to an integrated approach to learning that incorporates the study of art and other fields of study. This shouldn't come as a surprise from an ethnomusicologist, who earned acquired an MA from 1967 and the Ph.D. in the field of ethnomusicology from UCLA. The ethnomusicology program that I started at UC Berkeley (from 1975-1976) sits comfortably in a department of music at the College of Letters and Science. The possibility of pursuing multiple passions is one that I appreciate. Graduate students and undergraduates (for who I've written 3 texts - Music in India, The Classical Traditions of India, Thinking Musically: Music in Japan - Exploring Music - expressing Culture Expression) are enthused by my teaching. My teaching schedule will then alternate between periods that are primarily academic work and times of administrative duties (I was Chair of Department of Music from 1983 through 1988, and Dean of Undergraduate Advising between 1992 and 1998, as well as the Chair of College of Letters and Science Deans 1994-98; Chairperson of Group of Asian Studies from 1999, and I am now the Chair of Department of Music).