An Ethnomusicologist’s Last Lecture: Music and Globalism, Philosophy and Religion

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Steven Loza

An Ethnomusicologist’s Last Lecture

Music and Globalism, Philosophy and Religion

Steven Loza

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Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
15 December 2023

Music; Theory of music & musicology; Music reviews & criticism; Sacred & religious music; History: specific events & topics

An Ethnomusicologist’s Last Lecture: Music and Globalism, Philosophy and Religion explores the frustration of many scholars and artists with the content and directions of studies on music, which continue to be mostly based on Western thought, methods, theories, and even the modes of communicating ideas, and mostly through written, published works. Steven Loza argues that this pattern has pervaded both philosophy and ethnomusicology, fields which should be much more globally based in terms of intellectual analysis, culturally diverse points of view, and the recognition of multiple ways of thinking and doing. He criticizes what he perceives as an intellectual hegemony and biased approach to studying music, including the standards to which academics are held responsible, the manner in which we and our students have had to study music, and the forms by which we are pressured to present our findings, many times adapting theories and ideas that have nothing to do with the cultures we are examining through a one way microscope – and often a distorted lens. Loza takes the reader through an assortment of historical and contemporary global examples of musical expression, creative artists, and thinkers, looking for ways that we can assess how music both reflects and enacts culturally diverse peoples’ beliefs, thoughts, and world views.

By: Steven Loza
Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 239mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 531g
ISBN: 9781666932966
ISBN 10: 1666932965
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 15 December 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Steven Loza is professor of ethnomusicology and chair of Global Jazz Studies at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

Reviews for An Ethnomusicologist’s Last Lecture: Music and Globalism, Philosophy and Religion

Steven Loza is one of few grand pioneers in music, philosophy and religion! This magisterial text is his magnum opus - a rich multidimensional and cross-cultural inquiry into the musical creativity of suffering humanity across the globe! What a great gift to us all. -- Cornel West An Ethnomusicologist’s Last Lecture is an illuminating, provocative, and at once inspiring and perpetually challenging work. It is also an intensely personal book, one in which Steven Loza pulls no punches in articulating his views, beliefs, identity (or identities), and professional history. As such, it can and should be read as a personal testimonial of a senior, influential, and distinguished scholar in the field who has reached a point in life and career where there is no sense of need, let alone desire, to hold back from expressing their views on a great range of matters with candor, conviction, and frankness. In this mode of presentation, many gems of wisdom are shared amidst (and often in tandem with) bold pronouncements of faith, hope, cynicism, disenchantment, and rebuke. -- Michael Bakan, Florida State University