Ralph P. Locke

Ralph P. Locke (born 1949) is an American musicologist, classical music critic and professor emeritus of musicology at Eastman School of Music. He founded the Eastman Studies in Music series. He is a contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and several other books, and has been editor of several journals. He is also "one of the most published musicologists on orientalism and music." Locke earned his BA at Harvard University and his PhD at the University of Chicago.