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Daniel Terrazas: Music Student Performs with Award-Winning Latina Songstress

October 7, 2010

Daniel Terrazas

California State University, Dominguez Hills music major Daniel Terrazas, who plans to become a music educator, worked with Mexican singer and gold- and platinum-record winner Graciela Beltrán during a recent three-day tour in Oklahoma. Terrazas works part time around the Los Angeles area playing the tuba for Mexican Folk groups in music styles including banda sinaloence, sirreno, and norteños. One of the promoters for these groups offered Terrazas the opportunity to play for the widely popular Latina singer Beltrán, who has performed corridos, romanticas, and baladas for at least a decade. Terrazas took the job to get a higher level of professional experience under his belt. “The ... Read More

Salim Faraji: Professor of Africana Studies Attends Gathering of Scholars of Nubian Studies at British Museum

September 30, 2010

Salim Faraji (at far left) met a cadre of world-renowned - and few and far between - scholars of Nubiology at the 12th Annual International Conference for Nubian Studies at the British Museum last summer. L-R, in foreground: Faraji, David N. Edwards, professor of Nubian archaeology, University of Leceister; Derek A. Welsby, curator of Egyptian & Nubian Antiquities, British Museum; Necia D. Harkless

Salim Faraji, assistant professor of Africana studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills, attended the 12th Annual International Conference for Nubian Studies in August at the British Museum and presented his findings on “Africana Nubiology: Examining Classical Sudanese Traditions in West Africa.” “Ancient Sudanic civilization extended as far as West Africa,” says Faraji. “You can still see some of these cultural traditions in West Africa today. One is the building of sacred mounds on the palaces of royalty. I’ve seen these mounds in northern Ghana and other traditions that I can pinpoint as emerging in both ancient Nubia and West Africa.” As one of only two ... Read More

Music Department Earns Full Term of Accreditation from NASM

July 22, 2010

The music department at California State University, Dominguez Hills has recently been given another full ten-year accreditation by the National Association of Music Schools (NASM). Richard Kravchak, professor of music and the department’s chair, says that CSU Dominguez Hills is one of only nine music departments in all of California to hold accreditation from both NASM and the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, an achievement he is proud of in the face of the state’s budget reductions in higher education and that he credits “the degree of personal involvement of all of our faculty in the education of every music student.” “All of our music professors are practicing creative ... Read More

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