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

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

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

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

by Steven Loza
An Ethnomusicologist's Last Lecture: Music and Globalism, Philosophy and Religion

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

by Steven Loza

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781666932966
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 12/07/2023
Pages: 252
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

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

Table 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

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