Steven Loza

Steven Joseph Loza (born August 9, 1952 ) is an American ethnomusicologist .

Life

Steven Loza studied at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona (California) and graduated with a BA . He then moved to the University of California (UCLA) in Los Angeles , where he also dealt with ethnomusicology. Loza received his MA in 1979 and received his PhD in Los Angeles in 1985 with his dissertation on Mexican music .

Loza then left UCLA for two years and worked at the Arts of America Institute at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque . He then returned to UCLA and has been professor of ethnomusicology there ever since.

Works (selection)

author

Essays

• Latin Caribbean . In: Dale Olsen (Ed.): South America, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (The Garland Encyclopedia of world music; 2). Garland Books, New York 1998, ISBN 0-8240-6040-7 , pp. 790-801.
• Challenges to the Euroamericentric Ethnomusicological Canon. Alternatives for Graduate readings, theory, and method . In: Ethnomusicology. Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology , Vol. 50 (2006), ISSN  0014-1836 , pp. 360-371.
• El nacionalismo en la musíca mexicana. Steven Loza conversa con Blas Galindo y Manuel Enríquez . In: Heterofonía. Revista musical , Vol. 28/29 (1995), ISSN  0018-1137 , pp. 43-53.
• Contemporary ethnomusicology in Mexico . In: Revista de música latinoamericana , Vol. 11 (1990), Issue 2, ISSN  1536-0199 , pp. 201-250.

Monographs

• Barrio rhythm. Mexican American music in Los Angeles (Music in American Life). University Press, Urbana, Ill. 1993, ISBN 0-252-06288-4 .
• Tito Puente and the making of Latin Music . University Press, Urbana, Ill., 1999, ISBN 0-252-06778-9 .
• The musical life of the Mexican / Chicano people in Los Angeles, 1945–1985. A study in maintenance, change, and adaptation . Dissertation, University of Los Angeles 1985.

editor

• Musical aesthetics and multiculturalism in Los Angeles . University Press, Los Angeles 2003, ISBN 0-88287-051-3 .
• Musical cultures of Latin America. Global effects, past and present . University Press, Los Angeles 2003, ISBN 0-88287-055-6 .
• Religion as art. Guadalupe, Orishas and Sufi . University Press, Albuquerque 2009, ISBN 978-0-8263-4570-7 (Congressional essays Toward a theory for religion as art ).

Web links

• Laurie Mellas Ramitez: Ethnomusicologist to lead Arts of America. In: UNM Campus News of April 28, 2003.