Ethnomusicologists Last Lecture - Music and Globalism, Philosophy and Religion

This book critically addresses the conventional practices of studies on music, while taking readers through various global examples of musical expression.

List of contents

Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Thinking Globally: Thoughts and the Ideas of Others on Philosophy, Religion, and Music
Chapter 2: Composers and Ideologies through a World Prism
Chapter 3: The Spirituality of the Blues and Related Sacred Music
Chapter 4: Polarities, Windmills, and the Transcendence of the Universe
Chapter 5: James Newton, Composer of Faith
Chapter 6: Masked Phantoms: Thoughts on Our Research and Scholarship in Ethnomusicology
Chapter 7: Challenges to the Euro-Americentric Ethnomusicological Canon: Alternatives for Graduate Readings,
Theory, and Method
Chapter 8: Toward a Theory for Religion as Art: From Merriam to Guadalupe
Chapter 9: Social Justice and My Work as a Music Scholar, Teacher, and Artist
Chapter 10: Free Thoughts
Bibliography

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Steven Loza, Loza Steven
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781666932966
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-296-6
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous; Music, History: specific events & topics, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Religious / General, History of Music, Theory of music & musicology, Music reviews & criticism, Music reviews and criticism, Theory of music and musicology, Sacred and religious music, Sacred & Religious Music