Steven Loza

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

Life

Loza studied at the California State Polytechnic University in Pomona (California ) and graduated with a BA from. He then moved to the University of California (UCLA ) to Los Angeles and dealt with there as well ethnomusicology. In 1979, his M. A. Loza and in 1985 received his doctorate with his dissertation on Mexican music in Los Angeles.

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

Works (selection)

As author

  • 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 Euro Ameri Centric 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 musica 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 latino americana, Vol 11 (1990 ), Issue 2, ISSN 1536-0199, pp. 201-250.
  • 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 in 1985.

As 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 (essays of KongressesToward a theory for religion as art ).
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