This class is about punk rock in Seattle and the Puget Sound region, 1965 through the present. We begin with PNW proto-punk flashpoints, then fast forward and focus on the development of hardcore and post-punk experiments of the 1970s and early 1980s, the gradual coalescence of the "Seattle Sound" in the mid-to-late 1980s, and the global explosion of grunge in the early 1990s. We sift through the subsequent implosion, recalibration, and diversification of the scene into the late 1990s, extending it into the 21st century, documenting how successive generations of Seattle-based musicians have navigated economic transformation, technological change, and the complex legacy of their predecessors.

In Spring 2016, John Vallier and Third Andresen co-taught "Hip Hop Archiving in the PNW" (UW Honors Program). The class mixed history of Seattle's hip hop history with a hands-on establishment a local hip hop collection in the Archives. 

This class explores the colonial legacy of collecting in ethnomusicology. It critiques that impulse to appropriate and represent the ‘other.' Read more about this Winter Quarter 2022 course, offered through the UW Honors Program, here. 

This class focuses on Seattle's rich and diverse music histories. First offered by John Vallier in 2008, various versions of the class have followed in Honors and First Year Programs. In Spring 2023 , the class took a new turn, matching the core historical overview with a music mapping project. Learn more about the course here. 

Held online in Winter 2021, this UW Ethnomusicology mixed undergraduate and graduate student seminar critiqued ethnomusicology and its archives through the lens of its colonial and exclusionary colonial legacies. 

First offered by archivist Laurel Sercombe, this UW Ethnomusicology Program course explores both the history and present day sate of sound recoding archiving in the field of ethnomusicology. 

This UW Study Abroad class is an interdisciplinary mix, one that blends elements of ethnomusicology, Spanish music history, and popular music studies. Both traditional and contemporary Spanish musical practices were explored, from time honored Leonese jota to emerging Madrid hip-hop.