Ralph P. Locke

Ralph P. Locke is a musicologist and music critic, emeritus professor of musicology at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. He has won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Prize six times for scholarly articles and book chapters, has won two awards for reviews published in Music Library Association Notes, and is the author of three widely praised books: Music, Musicians, and the Saint-Simonians (University of Chicago Press) and, from Cambridge University Press, Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections and the Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart. A book that he co-edited with the late Cyrilla Barr, Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860 (University of California Press), is now available open-access. He often reviews books, scores, and recordings for Music Library Association Notes, American Record Guide, the Boston Musical Intelligencer, and The Arts Fuse.