About the Author

Steven Loza is a professor of ethnomusicology at UCLA. His publications include Barrio Rhythm: Mexican American Music in Los Angeles and Tito Puente and the Making of Latin Music. He is also the editor of Religion as Art: Guadalupe, Orishas, and Sufi. Loza has been active as a performer and composer and as a producer of major concerts and festivals at UCLA and in Mexico City.