Email: bjohns09@syr.edu----------------------
Art & Music Histories
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Birgitta Johnson
Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow
Research and Teachng Interests
Ethnomusicology; African American and African music; music and worship in African American churhces; musical change and identity in Black popular music; music in African American megachurhces; and sacred music in the African diaspora.
Specific genres: gospel music, praise and worship, blues, hip-hop, rhythm and blues, soul, and neo-soul.
Selected Articles/Book Chapters
Review of Higher Ground: Voices of Contemporary Gospel (Chatsworth, California: New Day Multimedia, 2004, film documentary). In Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology 12. 2006.
Education
Ph.D. Ethnomusicology, UCLA, 2008 M.A. Ethnomusicology, UCLA, 2002 B.A. Music, Agnes Scott, 1999
Courses
Blues, Society, and American Culture The Cultural History of Rap Music of Africa African American Sacred Music: From Spirituals to Stomp!
Awards, Honors, Grants
Summer Research Grant, Historical Society of Southern California, 2006
Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Institute of American Cultures/Ralph A. Bunche Center
for African American Studies, UCLA 2005-06
Summer Research Grant, Historical Society of Southern California, 2005
Vassie Davis Wright Scholar, Our Authors Book Club, Inc. Chapter of
the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc., 2005
Elaine Krown Klein/UCLA Affiliates Award, UCLA, 2004
Summer Research Grant, Institute of American Cultures/Ralph Bunche
Center for African American Studies, UCLA, 2004
Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship, UCLA, 2000-04
Summer Research Grant, Quality of Graduate Education, UCLA, 2003
Evelyn and Mo Ostin Performing Arts Award, UCLA, 2002