Jonathon Grasse

Jonathon Grasse is a professor of music at California State University, Dominguez Hills, where he teaches world music, music theory, and composition. His work Hearing Brazil: Music And Histories In Minas Gerais is the definitive English-language study on that region's musical traditions, a book complimented by The Corner Club , in which he examines Milton Nascimento's and Lô Borges's 1972 album Clube da Esquina . His articles have appeared in Popular Music and the Yale Journal Of Music And...See more

Jonathon Grasse is a professor of music at California State University, Dominguez Hills, where he teaches world music, music theory, and composition. His work Hearing Brazil: Music And Histories In Minas Gerais is the definitive English-language study on that region's musical traditions, a book complimented by The Corner Club , in which he examines Milton Nascimento's and Lô Borges's 1972 album Clube da Esquina . His articles have appeared in Popular Music and the Yale Journal Of Music And Religion , among other publications. Born in Calistoga, California, in 1961, Jonathon lives with his wife Nanci in West Los Angeles. See less