Ralph P. Locke

Ralph P. Locke (born 1949) is an American music researcher and professor emeritus of musicology at Eastman School of Music in New York. He one of the most well known classical music critics in the United States. He founded the Eastman Studies in Music series.Studies in Music Series Celebrates Landmark Volume He is a contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and several other books, and has been editor of several journals. He is also "one of the most published musicologists on orientalism and music."Claire Mabilat (2017), Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-Century British Popular Arts, p. 12, Routledge Locke earned his bachelor's degree at Harvard University and his doctorate at the University of Chicago.

Selected works
Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart, Cambridge University Press, 2015
Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections, Cambridge University Press, 2009
Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860, University of California Press, 1997
Music, Musicians, and the Saint-Simonians, University of Chicago Press, 1986

References

Category:Musicologists
Category:Academics from New York City
Category:1949 births