Steven Loza

Steven Joseph Loza (Steve Loza) is professor of ethnomusicology with the UCLA and adjunct professor of music at the University of New Mexico. He is an authour of two books and editor of four anthologies in Latin music, including the first in-depth biography of Tito Puente.^[1]

Steven Loza has B.A. in music from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology (1985), and master degree in Latin American studies (1979), both from UCLA.^[2]

Taking a two-year leave of absence from the UCLA, he headed the Arts of Americas Institute in the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts.^[2]

He has served on the national screening and voting committees of the Grammy Awards for many years.^[1]

[edit] Publications

Loza, Steven (1993). Barrio Rhythm: Mexican American music in Los Angeles. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-06288-4.
- (Spanish language) (2000) Recordando a Tito Puente: el rey del timbal, ISBN 0609810790, Random House Espanol
Loza, Steven (1999). Tito Puente and the Making of Latin Music. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0252067789.
(2003) Musical Aesthetics and Multiculturalism in Los Angeles.
(2003) Musical Cultures of Latin America: Global Effects, Past and Present. ISBN 0882870556.
(2005) Hacia una musicologia global: Pensamientos sobre la etnomusicologia.
(in press) Toward a Theory for Religion as Art: Guadalupe, Orishas, Sufi.

Loza, Steven. "Latin Caribbean", The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, 790-801.