Ethnomusicologist's Last Lecture

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

Steven Loza

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