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10/05/2026

The Shaw Center is looking forward to its 2026/2027 lecture series, beginning later this month!

This academic year, we will offer four lectures on diverse topics including video game music, heavy metal, Afro-Puerto Rican popular culture and Latin jazz, and Whitney Houston's embodiment of musical genius. The speakers are accomplished scholar-practitioners from across the United States, including Vanderbilt University, Occidental College, the Hartt School of the performing arts, and right here at UNLV.

Events list

October 15, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
Lecture by Stephen S. Hudson (Occidental College)
Title: "Metallica Never Sold Out: Style, Progression, and the Politics of Genre"
https://www.facebook.com/share/1C4xzE86Ct/

October 27, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
Lecture by Emily Lordi (Vanderbilt University)
Title: "Whitney Houston and Black Genius"
https://www.facebook.com/share/1HuUuQzHyV/

February 11, 2027, 4:30 p.m.
Lecture by Jose "Pepe" Jimenez (UNLV)
Title: "Afro-Puerto Rican Folklore, Jazz, Rock, and Funk"
https://www.facebook.com/share/17xZhhXjF8/

April 14, 2027, 5:30 p.m.
Lecture by Karen M. Cook (Hartt School, University of Hartford)
Title: "The Sonic Past(s) in Video Games"
https://www.facebook.com/share/19XviKHn2T/

All lectures take place at UNLV in the Ham Fine Arts Building, Room 147. Events are free and open to the public.

09/18/2026

Exciting lectures this year at the Arnold Shaw Popular Music Center - UNLV

09/02/2026

Calling all organists, students, church musicians, and anyone who just likes hearing a great instrument played well. 🎶

The Southern Nevada Chapter of the American Guild of Organists is excited to join the UNLV Organ Department in welcoming Dr. Neil Harmon, Coordinator of Organ and Carillon Studies at Brigham Young University, for an afternoon and evening devoted to the organ.

📅 Monday, September 14, 2026
📍 Dr. Arturo Rando-Grillot Hall, UNLV

You can make a full day of it:

2:30 PM | Masterclass
Baroque Music Practices & Techniques

6:00 PM | Pre-Recital Presentation
Tips on Being a Weekend Organist
Yes, a topic many of us know a little too well. 😅

7:00 PM | Organ Recital
Featuring music by Proulx, Mendelssohn, Gade, Bach, Buxtehude, Howell, Harmon, Campbell, and Dallier.

Whether you are a professional organist, a student, a weekend warrior on the bench, or simply curious about the King of Instruments, come spend some time with Southern Nevada’s organ community.

UNLV + SNCAGO + a full afternoon and evening of organ music. We’ll see you there.

Please share and help us spread the word!

02/12/2026

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, invites applications to its Master of Music degree program in musicology. Set within a growing research university that serves over 30,000 students in the heart of a vibrant and diverse urban center of over two million people, UNLV’s School of Music provides a stimulating environment for performers, scholars, composers, and educators. Musicology students and faculty enjoy the benefit of innovative collaborations within the School, as well as interdisciplinary endeavors across the University.

In the UNLV School of Music, more than a dozen degree programs explore Western art traditions, jazz and commercial music, and global practices. Scholarly research is supported by the collections in five campus libraries, including a Music Library. In addition, the School of Music houses the Arnold Shaw Popular Music Research Center, which presents an annual lecture and seminar series that brings scholars and practitioners of popular music and jazz to work with the University community.

The School of Music enrolls over four hundred students taught by nearly forty full-time faculty. Musicology faculty specialize in a broad range of topics:

- History of opera, Richard Wagner, Romanticism, critical theory, and British music (Anthony Barone: https://www.unlv.edu/people/anthony-barone)

- Baroque and early Classical repertoires, performance practice, and film music, (Jonathan Rhodes Lee: http://www.jonathanrhodeslee.com; Shaw Center: http://asc.unlv.edu)

- Global popular music, the traditional and contemporary music of East and Southeast Asia, historical and anthropological models of ethnomusicology, critical approaches to education and music education, organology, and colonialism in music (Richard Miller: https://www.unlv.edu/people/richard-miller)

Applicants for the M.M. in musicology may be eligible for financial support that may include a tuition waiver, an annual stipend, teaching assistantships, and other funding sources. General information about UNLV’s graduate funding may be viewed at https://www.unlv.edu/graduatecollege/financing.

To apply to the program, visit https://www.unlv.edu/graduatecollege/futurestudents.

For further information, prospective students are encouraged to contact Anthony Barone, Musicology Area Coordinator (anthony.barone -at- unlv.edu) or other Musicology faculty, and to visit the School of Music’s website: https://www.unlv.edu/music.

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