Senior Director of Advising; Affiliated Faculty in Music History
B.A., Lawrence University; M.A., Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara
Appointed In
2011
Office
Johnson Hall 108
Edmond Johnson is Senior Director of Academic Advising
Edmond Johnson is Senior Director of Advising and Affiliated Faculty in Music History.
As a music historian, his research focuses on the history of musical instruments and their intersecting social, cultural, and technological histories, with particular interests in keyboard instruments. He has published articles on the history of the early music revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and his current project focuses on the cultural history of the pipe organ.
His publications include articles in the Journal of Musicology and Keyboard Perspectives, as well as contributions to the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments and the Grove Dictionary of American Music. His article “The Death and Second Life of the Harpsichord” (Journal of Musicology) was awarded the 2015 Frances Densmore Prize by the American Musical Instrument Society.
Courses
- MUSC 261: "Western Music and Culture: 1580-1829"
- First-Year Seminar: "From the Phonograph to Auto-Tune: Exploring the Cultures of Recorded Music"
- CORE 98: "Experiencing Los Angeles Cultures" (1 unit)
- CORE 99: "Experiencing the Arts" (1 unit)