Steven Loza is a professor of ethnomusicology at UCLA, where he has been on the faculty for twenty years, and adjunct professor of music at the University of
New Mexico, where he formerly directed the Arts of the Americas Institute. He
has conducted extensive research in Mexico, the Chicano/Latino U.S., Cuba,
among other areas. He has been the recipient of Fulbright and Ford Foundation
grants among numerous others, and has served on the national screening and
voting committees of the Grammy Awards for many years. Aside from UCLA and the University of New Mexico, he has taught at the University of Chile, Kanda
University of International Studies in Japan, and the Centro Nacional de las
Artes in Mexico City. His publications include two books, Barrio Rhythm:
Mexican American Music in Los Angeles (1993) and Tito Puente and the Making of Latiin Music (1999), both published by the University of Illinois Press, in
addition to four anthologies, Musical Aesthetics and Multiculturalism in Los
Angeles (UCLA Ethnomusicology Publications), Musical Cultures of Latin America:
Global Effects, Past and Present (UCLA Ethnomusicology Publications, 2003),
Hacia una musicologia global: Pensamientos sobre la etnomusicologia
(CENIDIM/CONACULTA, Mexico, in press), and Religion as Art: Guadalupe, Orishas, Sufi (University of New Mexico Press, in press). Loza has performed a great amount of jazz and Latin jazz, has recorded two CDs, and has produced numerous concerts and arts festivals internationally, including his role as director of the UCLA Mexican Arts Series from 1986-96 and co-director of the Festival de Musicas del Mundo in Mexico City in 2000.

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