Experts Directory: Music
Ric Alviso
Department of Music
work: (818) 677-2155
email: ric.alviso@csun.edu
- World music
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Jeffrey Auerbach
Department of History
work: (818) 677-3561
email: jeffrey.auerbach@csun.edu
- Modern Britain
- European imperialism, art and music
- World history
- World鈥檚 fairs
- Author: 鈥淭he Great Exhibition of 1857: A Nation on Display鈥�
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Katherine Ramos Baker
Department of Music
Director, Graduate Studies in Music
work: (818) 677-3445
email: katherine.r.baker@csun.edu
Also speaks: some Spanish
- Choral music
- Music education
- Music education technology
- Teaching strategies
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Ronald M. Borczon
Department of Music
Director, Music Therapy Clinic
work: (818) 677-3174 / 3184
email:听rborczon@csun.edu
- Music therapy
- Music therapy with adult and adolescent psychiatric clients
- Music therapy with developmentally disabled clients
- Music therapy with various populations
- Music therapy for victims of disasters
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Peter J. Garcia
Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-3491
email: peter.garcia@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish
- Latin American ethnomusicology
- Southwest borderlands culture
- Chicana/o folklore
- Member of the advisory board of the 鈥淓ncyclopedia of Latina/o Folklore鈥�
- Author: 鈥淒ecolonizing Enchantment: Echoes of Nuevo Mexicano Popular Musics鈥�
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Matt Harris
Department of Music听
Director, Jazz Studies
work: (818) 677-3169
email:听matt.harris@csun.edu
- Jazz
- Commercial writing/composition
- Film scoring
- Jingles
- Music director of Disney special events
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Jeffery Izzo
Department of Music
Music Industry Studies
work: (818) 677-3184
email:听听jeffrey.izzo@csun.edu
- Entertainment law
- Music business
- Music composition
- Contributing author, "Music Entrepreneurship"
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Jinah Kim
Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-7414
email: jinah.kim@csun.edu
- Asian American and Korean American politics and culture, including the Los Angeles riots, 20th and 21st century popular culture, contemporary politics and K-pop
- Asian-Latino cultural and political relations
- Issues impacting undocumented Asian populations
- Author: 鈥淧ostcolonial Grief: Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas鈥�
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Garry Lennon
Department of Theatre
work: (818) 677-3086
email: garry.d.lennon@csun.edu
- Costume history
- Costume design
- Costume/scenic designers (past and present)
- Broadway musicals
- Puppetry
- Mask making
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Liviu Marinescu
Department of Music
work: (818) 677-6478
email: liviu7@csun.edu
Also speaks: Romanian
- Contemporary classical music
- Eastern European music
- Romanian language, culture and politics
- Communism in Eastern Europe
- Immigration issues
- Contemporary music styles
- Post-modern trends in music
- Recipient of Fromm Music Award from Harvard University
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Peter J. Marston
Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-2797 / 2853
email:
- The experience and communication of romantic love
- Cultural study of media communication
- Political arguments and debate
- Popular music criticism
- Popular culture censorship
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鈥淕ee鈥� Rabe
Department of Music
work: (818) 677-3184
email:听gigi.rabe@csun.edu
- Ethnomusicology
- Steel band performance
- Accordion performance
- Caribbean music鈥攕teel band and ska
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John Roscigno
Department of Music
work: (818) 677-6834
email: john.roscigno@csun.edu
- Conducting
- Orchestral music
- General music
- Inter-relation of the arts
- 20th century art history
- Interdisciplinary studies in the arts
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Elizabeth Sellers
Department of Music
work: (818) 677-3191
email: elizabeth.a.sellers@csun.edu
Also speaks: German
- Film scoring
- Conducting ensembles
- Original music for theater and dance
- Session conduction
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Andrew Surmani
Department of Music听
Music Industry Studies
work: (818) 677-3176
email: andrew.surmani@csun.edu
- Music industry
- Music education听
- Business
- Music publishing
- Music products
- Author, "Essentials of Music Theory," "Copyright Handbook for Music Educators and Directors," "Music Playing Cards: Classical Composers," "Music Playing Cards: Instruments" and "Mini Music Guide: Music Theory Essentials"
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