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An Ethnomusicologist's Last Lecture
Music and Globalism, Philosophy and Religion
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2023
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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.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-66693-296-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-3297-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
238
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
Chapter 1: Thinking Globally: Thoughts and the Ideas of Others on Philosophy, Religion, and Music No access Pages 9 - 42
Chapter 2: Composers and Ideologies through a World Prism No access Pages 43 - 66
Chapter 3: The Spirituality of the Blues and Related Sacred Musics No access Pages 67 - 76
Chapter 4: Polarities, Windmills, and the Transcendence of the Universe No access Pages 77 - 116
Chapter 5: James Newton, Composer of Faith No access Pages 117 - 150
Chapter 6: Masked Phantoms: Thoughts on Our Research and Scholarship in Ethnomusicology No access Pages 151 - 162
Chapter 7: Challenges to the Euro-Americentric Ethnomusicological Canon: Alternatives for Graduate Readings, Theory, and Method No access Pages 163 - 174
Chapter 8: From Merriam to Guadalupe: Toward a Theory for Religion as Art No access Pages 175 - 184
Chapter 9: Social Justice and My Work as a Music Scholar, Teacher, and Artist No access Pages 185 - 194
Chapter 10: Free Thoughts No access Pages 195 - 208
Bibliography No access Pages 209 - 220
Index No access Pages 221 - 236
About the Author No access Pages 237 - 238
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