A local musician with big dreams captured the hearts of millions around the world and landed a record deal after a video of their iconic UC Davis commencement walk went viral.
So, what’s the U.S. State Department doing in the music business? Actually, the State Department has a long music diplomacy history, and an expert on this is Carol A. Hess, a musicologist and Distinguished Professor of Music in the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis.
An estimated 30 million gallons of oil is one of many toxins in Newtown Creek, which borders Queens and Brooklyn in New York City. This unlikely place has not only inspired an opera, but it will also be the venue for it. "Newtown Odyssey," by UC Davis professor Kurt Rohde, visual artist Marie Lorenz and writer Dana Spiotta, will premiere soon.
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that there is an association between how songs sound and their place in our emotional lives. Sourcing songs from across the globe, Manvir Singh and his fellow researchers found that people from different types of societies can successfully identify a song’s type by how it sounds, regardless of the language of its words.
