Bonnie Schneider

Partly due to my graduation from my Bachelor of Music Program at Boston University in 1963, as well as being an educator (Brown University 1970-75) and observed the liberal arts curriculum from a first-hand perspective (Brown University) In my opinion, it is important to integrate education and the study of art into other disciplines. That's not a shock coming from an ethnomusicologist that earned a MA in 1967, and also a Ph.D. at UCLA. The ethnomusicology course, which began in 1975 at UC Berkeley in 1975-1976, is comfortably located in a music department in a College of Letters and Science. I enjoy pursuing multiple interests and looking at the whole image. Graduate students and undergraduates (for who I've written three texts - Music in India, The Classical Traditions of India, Thinking Musically: Music in Japan - Experience Music: Expressing Cultural Expression) love my classes. And I alternate periods when I am pursuing primarily academic activities in addition to periods of administrative responsibilities to the mix (Chair of the Department of Music 1983-88, Dean of Undergraduate Advising 1992-98; Chair of all the Deans at the College of Letters and Science 1994-1998, Chairperson of the Group of Asian Studies Since 1999, and now Chair of the Department of Music again).