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