Fredric Lieberman

*1940 - died May 4, 2013 An American ethnomusicologist, composer, music professor, and author. He was a faculty member at the University of California at Santa Cruz, he was affiliated with the Music Department (including the undergraduate degree programs, the master's program in ethnomusicology, and the Ph.D. program in cross-cultural musicology). UCSC is where he became known for teaching and studying the Grateful Dead.