Bonnie Schneider

After completing the Bachelor of Music (Boston University, 1963) as well as observing broad-based education as professor (Brown University 1971-75), i am now convinced of the benefits of an integrated approach to learning that focuses on the study of music alongside the study of other disciplines. It's not unusual for an ethnomusicologist (MA 1967, PhD at UCLA)! The program in ethnomusicology that I began here at UC Berkeley (from 1975-1976) can be found in the department of music within a College of Letters and Science. I am a fan of pursuing multiple passions and seeing the big overall picture. I am very passionate about teaching both undergraduates (majors as well as non-majors and for which I've composed three textbooks: Music in India the Classical Traditions, Thinking Musically as well as Music in Japan: Experiencing the Music of Japan, expressing Culture) and graduate students. Then I will alternate between periods of primarily academic work and times of administrative tasks (I served as Chair of Department of Music from 1983 to 1988, Dean for undergraduate Advising between 1992 and 1998, as well as Chair of College of Letters and Science Deans from 1994 to 1998; Chair of the Group of Asian Studies from 1999, and now am back as Chair of the Department of Music).