The PhD is the standard doctorate in music theory, musicology, music therapy, and ethnomusicology. Ethnomusicology, formerly comparative musicology, is the study of music in its cultural context. He specializes in musical semiotics and ethnomusicology. Folklore and folklorists were the precursors to the field of ethnomusicology prior to WWII. She has worked as an adjunct assistant professor at the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology. One defining feature of this decade was the advent of anthropological influence within ethnomusicology. More specifically, scholars debate what constitutes ethnomusicology. In 1972 the Press's publishing program was expanded to include regional studies and ethnomusicology. In these endeavors he has pursued a lifelong interest in ethnomusicology and world music. Musical interaction through globalization played a huge role in ethnomusicology in the 1990s. Richmond heard gagaku music on records at U.C.L.A.'s Department of Ethnomusicology in the early 1960s. The multifaceted and dynamic approaches to ethnomusicology allude to how the field has evolved. He dropped out of law school, but holds a degree in ethnomusicology. At the same period, academics began to treat the topic in the light of ethnomusicology. Similar to Hood, Seeger valued the performance component of ethnomusicology.