Curriculum Vitae 2014-15
Dr. Kimasi L. Browne
Ethnomusicologist
Research Interests: African Diaspora, African American Popular Culture,
Intercultural Musicology
Composer, Arranger, Conductor
Email:
Web:
Residence
1206 Galen Street
Duarte, CA 91010 USA
625-359-3009
Education
2013
2011
2011
2008
2005
1995
1992
1989
kbrowne@apu.edu
http://www.apu.edu/music/faculty/kbrowne/
Office
Azusa Pacific University, College of Music and
the Arts, School of Music
Box 7000, 901 E. Alosta Ave.
Azusa, CA 91702-7000 USA
626-815-6000 Ext. 3586
USA Secretary: Pamela Curtis - 626-812-3020
pjcurtis@apu.edu
Faculty Seminar in the Liberal Arts, Souls of Black Folk and Up from Slavery
Azusa Pacific University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
America’s Christian Credit Union, Glendora, CA. June 3-7
NEH Summer Scholar, Ethnomusicology and Global Culture, Society
for Ethnomusicology, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer
Institute, Department of Music, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
June 20-July 1
Faculty Seminar in the Liberal Arts, Analects of Confucius and Laozi’s Daodejing.
Azusa Pacific University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
America’s Christian Credit Union, Glendora, CA. June 6-11
Faculty Seminar in the Liberal Arts, Plato’s Republic. Azusa Pacific University College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences, America’s Christian Credit Union, Glendora,
CA. June 7-10
Ph.D., UCLA, Ethnomusicology
M.A., UCLA, Ethnomusicology
B.A., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Music Composition
A.A., Citrus College, Music-Fine Arts
Languages
English: Native language
Spanish: good reading, good speaking, Ph.D. research-level proficiency exam passed.
French: basic reading, basic speaking, Ph.D. research-level profiencey exam passed.
Chinese: - 18-month tutorial – Mandarin (Putonghua), basic speaking; Pinyin, basic reading
5-months cultural immerson – Mandarin, Beijing and Shanghai, China (PRC)
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Ph.D, Dissertation
2005 ‘Soul or Nothing:' The Formation of Cultural Identity on the British Northern Soul
Scene. Department of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, Chair.
Masters Thesis
1995 “Variation in the vocal style of Brenda Holloway: Soul singer and 1960s' Motown
recording artist.” Department of Ethnomusicology. University of California, Los
Angeles. Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, Chair.
Professional Employment
2010-present Professor of Music, Director of Ethnomusicology and Music Research
School of Music, Azusa Pacific University
2007-2010
Associate Professor of Music, Director of Ethnomusicology and Research
School of Music, Azusa Pacific University
2008
Visiting Professor (Certified Foreign Expert), Musicology Department, Central
Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China, March 3- July 1
2001-2006
Assistant Professor, Director of Gospel Choir and Ethnomusicology,
School of Music, Azusa Pacific University
2000-2004
Lecturer in Music and Director of Pomona College Gospel Choir
2001
Adjunct Professor, Department of Music, Whittier College
2000
Lecturer in Music, Department of Music, University of California, Riverside
1999-2000
Lecturer, Department of Black Studies, California State University, Long Beach
Fall 1998
Teaching Fellow, Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA
1997-98
Research Assistant, Dr. J. C. DjeDje, Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA
1994-95
Research Consultant, "Motown: The Story, The Sound and the Magic"
The Edison Institute, Motown Historical Museum and the Henry Ford
Museum and Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan.
1993-1997
Teaching Associate and Director of UCLA African American Music Ensemble,
Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA.
1993
Director, Oral History Project. Joint Partnership--Motown Historical Museum and
the Henry Ford Museum, project funded by a grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities
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Honors and Awards
2014
Alice V. Watkins Imago Deo Ethos Award Nomination. Nominated by the Dean and
Associate Deans in the College of Music and the Arts for playing a substantial role in
supporting underrepresented professionals at the university and advancing
diversity in higher education. 7 June
2013
Rose Liegler Graduate Scholarly Achievement Award Nomination. Nominated by
the Azusa Pacific University President’s Cabinet (Vice Presidents) and Academic
Cabinet (Provost and Deans) for valueing and promoting scholarship through
discovery, integration, or application, and actively supports dissemination of that
work through presentations and publications. The individual selected is one who
recognizes the linkages between active scholarship, teaching, student learning and
service. 9 May
2013
Publication Assistance Grant, awarded $2,000 towards subvention in publishing
book, with working title “The JJ Project,” Music Research Institute/MRI Press.
26 January.
2012
Accomplished Scholar Award. School of Music, Azusa Pacific University.
Awarded a 3-unit teaching load reducation in Fall 2012 semester to complete coediting a volume of collected essays. 26 April.
2011
NEH Grant Award
Summer Scholar in Ethnomusicology and Global Culture Summer Institute awarded
by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Society for
Ehnomusicology. 20 June -1 July
2011
Honorary Faculty Member
Yared School of Music, Addis Ababa University
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 3 January
2010
World Ambassador, Elder, and Global Advocate
Tena Kebena: Gardens from Dust Urban Agricultural Organization
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 28 December
2010
Extended Term Tenure (effective 9/1/2010) Azusa Pacific University
2007
Rose Liegler Graduate Scholarly Achievement Award. Awarded by the
President’s Cabinet (Vice-Presidents) and Academic Cabinet (Deans) for
conducting and disseminating research and scholarship at the international
level bringing global distinction to Azusa Pacific University. August 30.
2007
Sabbitical Leave Award, Spring 2008 to establish a gospel choir ensemble in the
permanent curriculum, and to teach an American Popular Culture theoretical course
as a Visiting Professor in the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China,
Musicology and Music Educaion Departments
2007
Diversity Grant - Institutional travel award to Ghana, West Afica to represent
APU at the 200th Year Emancipation Pilgrimage, 50th Year Ghanaian
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Independence Commemoration, and Panfest in Accra, Elmina, and Kumasi,
Ghana. Azusa Pacific University. Office of University Diversity and Assessment.
July 23 - August 9
2006
The Oxford Round Table. Induction and membership. Lady Margaret Hall,
University of Oxford, Oxford, England. July 13
2005
Diversity Grant - Institutional Travel award to escort APU Gospeln Choir
students to national convention of the Gospel Music Workshop of America,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Azusa Pacific University. Office of University Diversity
and Assessment August 13-19
2002
Alumni Professor of the Day, College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
2000-2001
Lecturer Faculty Merit Award, College of Liberal Arts, California State University,
Long Beach
1998-1999
Dorothy Danforth Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA
1997-1998
Institute of Ameritan Cultures Research Grant, UCLA
1997-1998
Center for African American Studies Research Grant, UCLA
1906-1997
Graduate Reseach Assistantship (with Dr. Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje)
Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA
1995-1996
Graduate Student Research Fellowship, UCLA
1994-1998
Project 88 Doctoral Fellowship, UCLA
1994-1995
William Grandvil Carter Memorial Award in Ethnomusicology and
African Studies, UCLA
1994-1995
Elaine Krown Klein Fine Arts Fellowship, UCLA
1993-1994
Chancellor's Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, UCLA
1992-1993
Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, UCLA
1992
Outstanding Graduating Senior Award,
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2001
"The Intercultural Nexus Between the Music of Motown and the Beatles" in
Intercultural Music, Volume 4, ed. Robert Mawuena Kwami and Cynthia Tse
Kimberlin. London: MRI Press/Centre for Intercultural Music Arts, pp. 57-71.
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1996
"'One Nation Under a Groove: Motown and American Culture' by Gerald Early"
Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology 7: 97-100
1994
"The Circle of Reciprocity Between Runners and Musicians at the Halfway Point
in the L. A. Marathon,"Musical Aesthetics and Multicultralism in Los Angeles,
Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology 10: 93-95.
Books
2013
Resiliency and Distinction: Beliefs, Endurance and Creativity in the Musical Arts of
Continental and Diasporic Africa. A Festschrift in Honor of Jacqueline Cogdell
DjeDje. Editors, Kimasi L. Browne and Jean N. Kidula. Richmond, CA: MRI Press.
Parts of Books
2013
With Jean L. Kidula. “Introduction,” in Resiliency and Distinction: Beliefs,
Endurance and Creativity in the Musical Arts of Continental and Diasporic Africa. A
Festschrift in Honor of Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje. Editors, Kimasi L. Browne and
Jean N. Kidula. Richmond, CA: MRI Press, pp. 1-9.
2013
“Bowing the Intellectual Heartstring of Continental and Diasporic Africa:The
Enduring and Distinctive Scholarly Works of Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje,” in
Resiliency and Distinction: Beliefs, Endurance and Creativity in the Musical Arts of
Continental and Diasporic Africa. A Festschrift in Honor of Jacqueline Cogdell
DjeDje. Editors, Kimasi L. Browne and Jean N. Kidula. Richmond, CA: MRI Press,
pp. 11-37.
2013
“Unspeakable Joy!: African American-Style Gospel Choirs in the Central
Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China,” in Resiliency and Distinction: Beliefs,
Endurance and Creativity in the Musical Arts of Continental and Diasporic Africa. A
Festschrift in Honor of Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje. Editors, Kimasi L. Browne and
Jean N. Kidula. Richmond, CA: MRI Press, pp. 79-115.
2011
“Traditional China and African Diasporic Culture: Erhu, APU, and the Gospel of
Intercultural Exhange” in Dialogues in Music - Africa Meets Asia,
Proceedings of the 2005 and 2007 International Symposia on African and
Chinese Music. Zhang Boyu, Editor in Chief. In collaboration with the Central
Conservatory of Music, Beijing & Centre for Intercultural Musicology at
Churchill College, Cambridge. Bilingual Edition (English & Chinese). Point
Richnond, CA: MRI Press, pp. 3-32 (English), pp. 293-320 (Chinese).
2008
“Soul Music:The Interculturalarity of a Repository for the African Diaspora and
Beyond” in Musica, Arte, Dialogo, Civilizacion, Maria Angustias Ortiz Molina
(Coordinadora), Fernado Ramos (Editor), Granada, Spain: University of Granada,
Foundation for Science and Technology, pp. 143-165.
1999
"The Introduction as Signature: An Analysis of Western Musical Instruments in
Chimurenga, Mbaqanga and Motown" in Turn Up the Volume!: A Celebration of
African Music, ed. Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, (Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum
of Cultural History), pp. 220-229.
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1998
Periodicals
2002
2001
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"Brenda Holloway: Los Angeles' Contribution to Motown" in California Soul: Music
of African Americans in the West, eds. Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje and Eddie S.
Meadows. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press),
pp. 321-351.
“Multiple Identities and Overlapping Experience: A Brief History of Motown and
Rare Soul Music in Britain,” Annual Conference Abstracts: Communities, Identities,
and Experience, British Forum for Ethnomusicology Newsletter Number 23, Summer,
p. 10
“Poor Man Lazrus.” Pomona College Gospel Choir, Kimasi L. Browne, director.
A Pomona Music Sampler.CD enclosedin each print copy of Pomona College
Magazine Vol. 38, No. 2, Winter, Track 10.
Online Publications
2006
"'Identity, Scene and Material Culture: The Place of African American Rare Soul
Music on the British Northern Soul Scene." Published online at www.soulsource.co.uk
URL: http://www.soul-source.co.uk/_/articles/soul-articles/soul-or-nothing-a-papergiven-at-manchester-universty-r501
June 10 (Last Accessed 07/01/14).
2006
"'Soul or Nothing:' The Formation of Cultural Identity on the British Northern Soul
Scene." Ph. D. Dissertation (2005). University of California, Los Angeles. Jacqueline
Cogdell DjeDje, Chair. Ann Arbor, MI: ProQuest Publications eBook (pdf version
digital download), www.amazon.com; URL:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI9A9O/102-68446981232115?v=glance&n=551440
March (Last Accessed 06/30/07)..
Published Keynote Essays
1993
"Marvin Gaye: Culture Bearer of an African American Musical Tradition. Fourth
Annual Tribute to Marvin Gaye. Detroit: Motown Historical Museum, pp. 9-18.
Published Works About ‘Kimasi L. Browne,’ or. in which Kimasi L. Browne is Acknowledged,
Cited, Quoted, or Referenced
In Books:
2006
Ortiz Molina, Maria Augstias and Almudena Ocaña Fernandez. Cultura, Culturas,
Estudios Sobre Música y Educación Intercultural. Granada, Spain: Grupo Editorial
Universitariok, p. 12. Kimasi L. Browne referenced.
2005
Lillis O’Laire. On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean: Songs and Singers on Tory Island,
Ireland. Oxford: Scarecrow Press, p. viii. Kimasi L. Browne acknowledged.
2004
Michael Eric Dyson. Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves & Demons of Marvin Gaye. New
York: Bsic Civitas Books, p. 272. Kimasi L. Browne referenced.
2004
Deborah Wong. Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music.New York:
Routledge. Bibliography
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2001
Robert Walser. Keeping Time: Readings in Jaz History. p xii. Kimasi L. Browne
acknowledged.
1998
Kwaku Person-Lynn. “Insider Perspectives on the American Afrikan Popular Music
Industry and Black Radio” in California Soul: Music of African Americans in the
West, eds. Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje and Eddie S. Meadows. (Berkeley and Los
Angeles: University of California Press), p. 211. Kimasi L. Browne referenced.
1998
Jean Kidula. “The Gospel of Andrae Crouch” in California Soul:Music of African
Americans in the West, eds. Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje and Eddie S. Meadows.
Browne Referenced.
In Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2002
Emmett G. Price III. “California Soul: Music of African Americans in the
West.” Book Review. Ethnomusicology 46 (1): 166. Kimasi L. Browne
referenced.
2001
Deborah Wong. “Finding an Asian American Audience: The Problem of
Listening.” American Music 19 (4): 384. Kimasi L. Browne referenced.
1998
Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje. “Remembering Kojo: History, Music, and Gender in
the January Sixth Celebration of the Jamaican Accompong Maroons
Black Music Research Journal May 22. Kimasi L. Browne acknowledged.
On the Internet:
2008
“Kimasi Browne in Beijing | virtualreview.org” Virtual Review: China News and
Opinion. http://virtualreview.org/china/zoom/611112/kimasi-browne-in-beijing.
.
YouTube June 5. (Last Accessed 7-28-08). About Kimasi L. Browne
2008
Jing Zhou, Xiaoxi Wang, and Xian Yan Wang. “Unspeakable Joy, on That MomentGospel Choral Concert in CCOM Come to a Successful Close.”
http://en.ccom.edu.cn/wn/news/2008s/200806200002.shtml June 20. (Last
Accessed 7-24-08). About Kimasi L. Browne.
2008
“Unspeakable Joy: 黑人福音合唱音会震撼灵魂浓情上演.’Musicians Association of
North America. http://www.scmnaaxlusa.com/chinese/c_event/2008/G20080526003.htm (Last Accessed 6/23/08).
About Kimasi L. Browne
2008
“美国民族音乐学家Kimasi Browne来我院讲学” Central Conservatory of Music,
Musicology Department Website, Beijing, China
http://www.ccom.edu.cn/xwzx/yyxw/200803060002.shtml
(Last Accessed 03/16/08). About Kimasi L. Browne
2008
“Gospel Contemporary.” California Musicians, Composers, and Sound Artists. Art
California. http://www.artcalifornia.net/calartists_music.html (Last Accessed
03/16/08). Kimasi L. Browne cited.
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2008
Pipi.com – Profile: “4 Quick Facts About Kimasi Browne”.
http://pipl.com/directory/people/Kimasi/Browne. (Last Accessed 02/14/08)
2007
“Alan Clarke’s Road ‘Solved’.” Britmovie: British Film Forum.
http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/can-you-name-film/10279-alan-clarkes-roadsolved.html (Last Accessed 07-28-08) Kimasi L. Browne Referenced.
2007
“中央音乐学院欢迎您 “World Music Days 2007 & Second International Symposium
on African and Chinese Music Open Solemnly.”
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zhCN&u=http://www.ccom.edu.cn/dzjg/wsbgs/wsnews/200711230011.shtml&sa=X
&oi=translate&resnum=8&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dkimasi%2Bbrowne%
26start%3D60%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
(Last Accessed 7-28-08). Kimasi L. Browne Cited.
2007
“Hip Hop Meets Religion and Soars.” Religion: Newsriters – Religious news ideas and
sources. http://www.religionlink.org/tip_070409zones.php April 8. (Last Accessed
03/01/2008). Kimasi L. Browne cited.
2007
Wikipedia – The Free Ecyclopedia. Northern Soul: External Links.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_soul (Last Accessed 07/01/14). Kimasi L.
Browne referenced.
2006
Karen Burrell. "What Is Northern Soul?" in Karen Burrell Promotions presents : You
Know You Got Soul #4. URA
:http://www.youknowyougotsoul.com/youknowyougotsoulwhatisnorthern.htm
(Last Accessed 10/22/07). Kimasi L. Browne quoted.
Conference Presentations
International Conference Presentations
2014
“The History of Akin Euba’s Dialogues in Music Project.” Opening Speech to the 1st
Biennial Conference on Music and the Arts (Part of the Dialogues in Music Project
started by Professor Akin Euba). University of the Virgin Islands, College of :Liberal Arts
and Social Sciences, Music Department, Academic Conference Center, St. Thomas, US
Virgin Islands. 17 March.
2013
“The Black, South American Pacifi .” Chair, paper panel session presented to the 58th
Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Indianapolis, In, 16 November
2013
“African American-Style Gospel Choirs in the Central Conservatory of Music,
Beijing, China.” A paper presented to 42nd World Conference of the International
Coucil of Traditional Music (ICTM), Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Shanghai, China
12 July
2013
“Filling in the Gaps of Religious and Instrumental Music Traditions.” Chair, paper
panel session presented to 42nd World Conference of the Internationa Coucil of
Traditional Music (ICTM), Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Shanghai, China, 12 July
2013
“Inside China Imagining the African Diaspora.”
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An invited talk presnted to the Performing the Other: A Symposium on Cutural
Exchanges between China and Africa. Invited by Dr. Kwasi Ampene. Hosted by the
Universaity of Michigan Internatinal Institute, the Center for World Music
Performance and the Confucius Institute. Fowler Hall, 30 March
2012
“Transcontinental Dialogue and Discourse: Musical Conversations between Asia,
Africa, North America and Europe.” An invited speech presented to the Discourse
in Music Symposium. Northeaster University, College of Music, Art and
Design, Department of Music, Boston, MA, Fenway Center. 5 October
2011
“Preserving and Interpreting African Traditional Dance.” Chair, paper panel,
Dialogue: Africa Meets North America in Harlem International Conference and
Festival, Adam Clayton Powell Harlem-State Office Building, New York City, NY. 1
November
2011
“The Growth of Gospel Music in Africa.” Chair, paper panel (substitution for Doris
Green), Dialogue: Africa Meets North America in Harlem International Conference
and Festival, Adam Clayton Powell Harlem State Office Building, New York City, NY.,
1 November
2010
"The Nexus Between Ethnomusicology, Intercultural Musicology, Interculturalarity,
and the Advent of AMNA." 11th Biennial Symmposium and Festival of the Centre for
Intercultural Music Arts (CIMA) and the V Spring Meeting (V Encuentro de
Primavera( of La Universidad de Granada, Campus de Melilla, Melilla, Spain, 8 April
2008
“Soul Music: The Interculturalarity of a Repository for the African Diaspora and
Beyond.” 10th Biennial Symposium and Festival of the Centre for Intercultural Music
Arts (CIMA) and the III Spring Meeting (III Encuentro de Primavera) of La Escola
Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal,
11 April
2007
“Traditional China and African Diasporic Culture: Erhu, APU, and the Gospel of
Intercultural Exchange.” A Power Point Presentation to World Music Days
2007, 2nd International Symposium on Chinese and African Music. Central
Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China. 7 November
2006
Commentary and Response to "Semiotic Theory and the Limits of Computer
Mediated Learning;" and "Technical and Professional Communication Seals
the Divide between the Two Cultures." Oxford Round Table: "Arts and
Science." Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, Oxford, England. 13 July.
2006
“The Intercultural Moment: Experiencing the Impartation of Gospel Music in Beijing,
China.” A Seminar presented with Scott Lui Kai to the 9th Biennial Symposium and
Festival of the Center for Intercultural Music Arts (CIMA). Facultad de Ciencias de
la Educacion, University of Granada, Granada, Spain. April 20.
2006
"'Identity, Scene and Material Culture: The Place of African American Rare Soul
Music on the British Northern Soul Scene." A paper presented to the Conference on
Music and Place. Manchester Institute for Popular Culture. Manchester Metropolitan
University, Manchester, England, 8 June
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2002
“Multiple Identities and Overlapping Experience: A Brief History of Motown and
Rare Soul Music in Britain,” British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual meeting,
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 12 April
1998
"Music and Ritual in the Northern Soul All-nighter," Colloquium on Music and
Ritual, Irish World Music Center, University of Limerick, Limerick, Republic of
Ireland, 28 April
1996
"Motown and the Beatles: Symbols of Two Interlocking Youth Cultures," Society for
Ethnomusicology Annual meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1 November
1996
“The Intercultural Nexus Between the Music of Motown and the Beatles, Biennial
Symposium and Festival of the Centre for Intercultural Music Arts, City University,
London, England, 16 April
National Conference Papers (USA)
2008
“ Slobin –Titon’s Music Culture Outline” Resituating the Western Canon through
Pedagogy and the Theoretical Frame in the United States, the United Kingdom, and
the People’s Republic of China,” A paper presented to the annual meeting of the
Society for Ethnomusicology. Wesleyan University, MIddleton, Connecticut, 26
October
2006
"Negotiating Faith and Belief / Scholarship and Pedagogy: The Emerging Presence
of Ethnomusicology in the Southern California Christian Academy." A position
statement presented as part of a four-member Roundtable to the 51st annual meeting
of the Society of Ethnomusicology. Honolulu, Hawaii, 19 November
2003
"African American Soul Music in Underground Great Britain: A Brief History of
Northern Soul." Society for Ethnomusicology Annual meeting, Miami, Florida,
3 October
2001
"Rare 45s are Keeping Me Alive: Reification, Obscurity, and Subcultural Capital on
the Northern Soul Scene," Society for Ethnomusicology Annual meeting, Detroit,
Michigan, 25 October
1995
"Brenda Holloway: California's Contribution to the Motown Sound" Society for
Ethnomusicology Annual meeting, Los Angeles, California. October.
Regional Conference Papers (Southern California)
2009
"Impartation, Invocation, and Improvisation: Teaching African American Culture
in the Chinese Music Conservatory." Paper presented to the Society for
Ethnomusicology, Southern California and Hawaii Chapter. University of
Callifornia, Los Angles. 21 February
2001
"Rare 45s Are Keeping Me Alive: Reification and Obscurity of Vinyl Records on
the Northern soul Scene.” Paper presented to the Society for Ethnomusicology,
Southern California Chapter Annual meeting, University of California, Santa
Barbara. 25 February
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2000
“Music, Ritual, and Class on the Northern Soul Scene.” Paper presented to the
Society for Ethnomusicology, Southern California Chapter Annual meeting.
University of San Diego, San Diego, California. 26 February
1994
"Red, White and Blue in Black: A Reconceptualization of the Anacreontic Song.
Society for Ethnomusicology, Southern California Chapter Annual meeting. UCLA,
February
1992
"The Musicology of Motown: New Horizons in Popular Music Research," Society
for Ethnomusicology, Southern California Chapter Annual meeting, California State
University, Dominguez Hills, February
Invited Speeches, Lectures, Seminars, Workshops, Master Classes, Keynote Addresses and
Media Presentations
International Invited Presentations
2014
“Current Uses of Earlier Concepts: The Slobin-Titon Music Culture Outline as a
Contemporary Pedagogy of the Musicking ofDiasporic Africa and Beyond.” Inaaugural
Meeting of the International Council of Traditional Music (ICTM)
North American Subsection - African Music Study Group, Mary Pappert School of Music,
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. Invited by conference organizer Dr. Marie Agatha
Ozah. 6 June
2014
“The History of Akin Euba’s Dialogues in Music Project.” Opening Speech to the 1st
Biennial Conference on Music and the Arts (Part of the Dialogues in Music Project
started by Professor Akin Euba). University of the Virgin Islands, College of Liberal Arts
and Social Sciences, Music Department, Academic Conference Center, St. Thomas, US
Virgin Islands. Invited by conference organizer Dr. Lorna Young-Wright. 17 March.
2013
“The Black, South American Pacific .” Chair, paper panel session presented to the 58th
Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Indianapolis, In, invited by program
chair Dr. David Harnish. 16 November
2013
“Inside China Imagining the African Diaspora.”An invited talk presnted to the
Performing the Other: A Symposium on Exchanges between China and Africa.
. Hosted by the Universaity of Michigan Internatinal
Institute, the
Center for World Music Performance and the Confucius Institute.
Fowler Hall, Invited by conference organizer Dr. Kwasi Ampene 30 March
2012
“Transcontinental Dialogue and Discourse: Musical Conversations between
Asia, Africa, North America and Europe.” Aa speech presented to the
Discourse in Music Symposium. Northeaster University, College of Music,
Art and Design, Department of Music, Boston, MA, Fenway Center.Invited by
conference organizer Dr. Anthony Di Rittis. 5 October
2011
“Transculturalarity among Musicians and Scholars of the African Diaspora: Akin
Euba’s Dialogue in Music as Africa Meets North America in Harlem Symposium
and Festival.” Welcoming apeech presented to Dialogue: Africa Meets North
America in Harlem International Conference and Festival. Adam Clayton Powell
Harlem State Office Building, New York City, NY. Invited by conference
organizer Princess Joyce Adewumi. 31 October
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2011
“Music and Other Artisticic Traditions of Ethiopia: Honoring Cultural Emmissaries—
Past, Present, and Future,” Keynote Address presented at the Ambassadorial
Concert honoring Ethiopian concert pianist Girma Yifrashewa. Yared School of
Music Coincert Hall, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Invited by
conference host Princess Joyce Aduwami. 3 January
2009
"Boundary Crossing and Style Adaptation in Christian Popular Music." Chair of panel
session at annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular
Music. University of California, San Diego. Invited by program chair, Dr. Kenneth Habib.
30 May
2008
“The Role of Movement and the Sense of Self with Others in Performing African
American Jazz and Gospel Music.” Master Class. The China Children’s
Choir. Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China. Invited by Maestro Yang
Hong Nian and Conductor Yang Li. 15 June
2008
“Soul Music: Interculralarity in Action (A Repository beyond the African
Diaspora). Lecture presented to China Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China. Invited by
Musicology Department dean Dr. Chen Wen Dao. 2 June
2008
Intercultualarity in Action: Soul Music as a Repository for the African Diaspora and
Beyond. Lecture. Tianjin Conservatory of Music. Tianjin, China. Invited by
Musicology Department dean Dr. Fang Jian Jun, 31 May
2008
Series of Invited Lectures and Concerts. Qi Bao, Hong Qiao, and Shanghai, China.
Invited by Ma Xiaohui (International erhu virtuoso). 6, 8, and 10 May
2008
“Meaningful Cultural Exchange: A Keynote Dialogue with Ma Xiaohui” Erhu:
Dialog with the World Recital. Oriental Concert Hall. Shanghai, China. Invited by erhu
virtuoso and tour organizer Ma Xiaohui. 10 May
2007
“Composition in Africa and China: Multi-Cultural Composition, Intercultural
Prospects in African Gospel, and Transformation Methods in Traditional China.”
Chair, Paper Panel. Africa Meets Asia, 2nd International Conference on African and
Chinese Music. Invited by conference organizer Dr. Li Xin, 8 November.
2007
“Stylistic Techniques of Contemporary Gospel Music Composition in Africa: The
Intercultural Prospects, by Femi Adedeji, Ph.D. (Obafemi Awolowo University ,
Ife-Ife , Nigeria). Read paper in author’s absence. Africa Meets Asia, 2nd
International Conference on African and Chinese Music. Invited by Confeence
organizer Dr. Li Xin, 8 November
2007
“The Benefits of Intercultural Exchanges” Keynote Address. Opening Ceremonies
of the Africa Meets Asia: 2nd International Conference on African and Chinese
Music.Central Conservatory of Music. Beijing, China. Invited by Conference
host and Musicology Department dean Dr.Zhang Boyu, 5 November
2006
Live Interview on Radio XFM 97.7 by Russ Winstanley on "Northern Soul.Sunday
Evening Show." Discuss Ph.D. dissertation. Manchester, England . Invited by radio
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program host Russ Winstanley, 23 July
2006
“Manchester 3,” chair, paper panel. Conference on Manchester: Music and Place.
Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England, UK. Manchester Institute
for Popular Culture. Invited by Conference organizer Dr. Katie Milestone, 9 June
2006
"The Intercultural Moment: Experiencing the Impartation of Gospel Music in Beijing,
China." A Seminar presented to the 9th Bienial Symposium and Festival of the Center
for Intercultural Music Arts (CIMA). In collaboration with Scott Liu Kai (PRC).
Facultad de Ciencias de la Educaccion, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Invited by conference organizer Dr. Fernando Ramos. 20 April
2005
"African American Gospel Choral Music." A workshop presented to the "Africa
Meets Asia" Dialogue on Chinese and African Music and Symposium on the
compositions of Hlaim El Dabh. Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China.
Invited by conference organizer Dr. Li Xin, 18 October
1998
"Journey of the Soul Doctor: US Music Expert Tracks Down Cult of the Casino" by
Mark Donaghy.Wigan Evening Post Wigan, Lancashire, England. Friday, 24 April
1998
" Popular Music Field Research in Great Britain. Post Graduate Seminar in
Ethnomusciology, ;University of Limerick, Limerick Republic of Ireland. Invited by
Ethniomusicoligy program director Dr. John Morgan O'Connell, 26 April
National Invited Presentations
2011
“Transculturalarity among Musicians and Scholars of the African Diaspora: Akin
Euba’s Dialogue in Music as Africa Meets North America in Harlem Symposium
and Festival,” Presentation made in partial fulfillment of requirement as a
Summer Scholars to produce a project generated during the Natuional
Endowment for the Humanities Ethnomusicoilogy and Global Culture Summer
Institute. Wesleyann University, Middletown, CT. 30 June
2010
"'Thinking Critically in the 21st Century Academy': A Special Session with
Plenary Speakers (Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, Terrance J. Roberts, Henry Gee).
Session organizer and moderator. 3rd annual meeting of Christians for Diversity
in the Academy. Monrovia, CA. Invited by Prof. Debbie Gin, conference
organizer. 24 March
2009
"Envisioning the Christian Educator in the Era of President Obama." Chair of Special
Intercessions Session featuring the three Plenary Speakers. 2nd Annual Conference on
Christians for Diversity in the Academ. Invited by conferencee organizer, Dr. Debbie Gin.
Doubletree Hotel, Monrovia, CA. 25 March
2006
"Northern Soul and the Impact of 'Blues' Elements in the Motown Sound" A
Lecture presented in the course Blues (MUSL-151), Blair School of Music,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Invited by ethnomusicologist Dr.
Gregory Barz,
15 February
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"The Nexus between African American Soul Music (James Brown) and African
Popular Music (Fela Kuti) in the 1970s'; and the Connections between Motown's
Boyz II Men, Gospel's Take 6, and the South African Christian Isicathamiya Zulu
Quintet, UNIF." A Lecture presented in the course “African Music” (MUSL-171),
Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Invited
by ethnomusicologist Dr. Gregory Barz. 15 February
1994
"What was Marvin Gaye's Significance and Why is He Important?" A
commissioned lecture presented to the student body of the Detroit High School of
the Performing Arts, Detroit, Michigan. Invited by Motonw Historical Museum
director Dr. Rowena Stewart, May
Regional Invited Presentations
2009
"Sharing Faith in International Research and Academic Environments: Teaching
African American Culture in Beijing, China." A lecture given to the School of
Intercultural Communication, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, Caliofornia.
Invited by ethnomusicologist Dr. Roberta King. 4 May
2007
“Imperatives and Key Themes in African American Gospel Music Research.” A
lecture given to the Exegeting Music Cultures Graduate Seminar. School of
Intercultural Communication, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, Caliofornia.
Invited by ethnomusicologist Dr. Roberta King.
9 October
2007
“Slobin and Titon’s Music Culture Outline as Theoretical Model.” A lecture given to
the Exegeting Music Cultures Graduate Seminar. School of Intercultural
Communication, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, Caliofornia. Invited by Dr.
Roberta King, 9 October
2006
"Negotiating Belief and Scholarship: The Emergence of Ethnomusicology in the
Christian Academy." Organizer, Roundatable presented to the Annual Meeting of the
Society for Ethnomusicology, Southern Califoria Chapter. University of California,
San Diego. San Diego, California. Invited conferency program chair by Dr. Kathleen
Hood, 5 March
2005
“The Emergence of Ethnomusicology in the Christian
Academy.”.
Plenary Address presented at the Convocation of the 39th annual meeting of the
Society for Ethnomusic‘ology, Southern California Chapter held jointly with the
Pacific Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Munson Chapel,
Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California. Invited by SEMSCHC presodent Dr.
Katherine Hagedorn, 2 February
2004
"Hip Hop World Part 2," chair, paper panel. annual meeting, Soceity for
Ethnomusicology, Southern California Chapter, University of California, Los
Angeles. Invited by SEMSCHC president Dr. Cheryl L.Keyes, 22 February
2003
"Cultural Identity: Production, Retention, and Contestation," chair, paper panel,
annual meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Southern Calfornia Chapter, Loyola
Marymount University, Invite by conference program chair Dr. Christi Anne Reyes,
22 February
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2002
“My Research on Northern Soul.” A presentation to A World of Music, at the
invitation of Dr. David Kopplin. Alumni Professor of the Day, California State
Polytechnic University, Pomona, Department of Music, 3 April
1999
"Motown: An American phenomenon" A presentation to the World Music Survey,
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California. Invited by e
ethnomusicologist Dr. Timothy Cooley. January.
1999
"Motown as a Cultural Catalyst in American Popular Music." A presentation to the
American Popular Music Survey, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara, California. Invited by ethnomusicologist Dr. Cornelia Fales. January.
1998
“On Completing a Ph.D. Program.” A presentation to the Annual Orientation for
California Pre-Doctoral Scholars. California State University, Long Beach.
September
1995
"Motown and the Recording Industry." A presentation to the Music Colloquium,
Golden West College, Huntington Beach, California. Invited by Music Professor
Henrietta McKee Carter, September
1995
"Motown's Contribution to Black History." A presentation to 800 incarcerated
youth. Los Angeles County Probation Department, Juvenile Detention Facility,
Sylmar, California. Invited by the Los Angeles Country Probation Deptment.
February
Local Invited Presentations
2013
“Of the Sorrow Songs: Chapter XIV of W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk. An oral
and PowerPoint presentation. Faculty Seminar in the Liberal Arts 2013. Azusa
Pacific University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. America’s Christian Credit
Union, Glendora, CA. Invited by CLAS Dean David Weeks. 6 June
2011
“Confucianism, Taoism and Music.” An oral and PowerPoint presentation. Faculty
Liberal Arts Seminar 2011. Azusa Pacific University College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, America’s Christian Credit Union, Glendora, CA Invited by Dr. David Weeks.
9 June
2010
“Looking at and Listening to Beauty from a Global Musical Perpective.” Presented to
Azusa Pacific University, School of Behavioral and Applied Sciences, Department of
Leadership and College Student Development, Creative and Collaborative Leadership
(LDRS 510), Invitedby leadership ptofessor Dr. Paul Kaak, 3 October
2008
“The African American Contribution to APU: A Short Devotion.”
Presented to
the Full Faculty Meeting at Azusa Pacific University in commeoration of Black
History Month. Wilden Hall. Invited by faculty moderator Dr. Kimberly BattleWaters Denu. 13 February
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“Pilgrimage to West Africa: Looking Back and Looking Forwaard—A Photo
Essay.” PowerPoint Presentation with Narrative. Research/Grant Lecutre Series.
Sponsored by the Office of Research, Azusa Pacific University, 23 January
2007
“Traditional China and African Diasporic Culture: Erhu, APU, and the Gospel of
Intercultural Exchange.” A PowerPoint Presentation (in preparation for the World
Music Days 2007,Africa Meets Asia, 2nd International Symposium on Chinese and
African Music. Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China. Presented to APU
Faculty, Staff, and Administration. Research/Grant Lecture Series. Sponsored by the
Office of Research, Azusa Pacfic University. 24 October
2005
“From West Africa to Alicia Keyes: The History of Soul Music.” A celebration of
Black History Month presented to the Black Student Awareness Azusa Pacific
University, Azusa, California. Invited by Tammi Terrell, student member of BSA.
February
.
2002
“My Journey.” Lecture/presentation to Music 419: History of Asia, Africa, and
the Middle East, Department of Music, California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona. Invited by music professor Dr. David Kopplin. 3 April
Online and Media Representations
2011
Westrik, Arijan (poster of clip). “Enjoying Music After Class (Conservatory Beijing),”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGzMU4lEdS0, 3 August
2005
Photograph. "Kimasi Browne (USA) Directing Gospel Music Workshop" Composition in
Africa: A Symposium and Festival / Africa Meets Asia (2005) [in Beijing, China]
URL:http://www.pitt.edu/~aeuba/BeijingPhotos/BeijingPhotos.html
2005
"Kimasi Browne (USA) " Composition in Africa: A Symposium and Festival / Africa
Meets Asia (2005 ) [in Beijing, China]
URL http://www.pitt.edu/~aeuba/BeijingPhotos/BeijingPhotos.html
Selected Musical Performances
2013
Soloist, “The Greatest Love of All.” Elegy sung at memorial service for Dr. Katherine
Hagedorn. 58th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
Indinapolis, IN. November 15
2013
Soloist, Composer, “What You’ve Done for Me.” Invocation. 58th Annual Meeting of
the Society for Ethnomusicology. Indinapolis, IN. November 16
2008
Conductor, Unspeakable Joy Concert,Combined Choirs of the Central
Conservatory of Music Musicology Choir and Music Education Choir
Grades 1, 2, nd 3), Recital Hall, Central Conservatory of Music,
Beijing, China. June 13
2008
Founder and Director, Musicology Choir. Musicology Department, Central
Conservatory o Music, Beijing China (Spring semester 2008).
2008
Featured Soloist, “Sky and Dreams.” Unspeakable Joy concert. Central
Concervatory of Music, Beijing, China. June 13
2008
Featured Soloist, “Better.” Unspeakable Joy concert. Central Concervatory of
Music, Beijing, China. June 13
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Conductor, Concert. Combined Choirs of the Central Conservatory of Music
(Musicology Choir and Music Education Choir Grade 1). Beijing
Fengtai Church, Beijing, China. June 8
Featured Soloist. “Jesus Oh Jesus.” Beijing Fengtai Church. Beijing, China.
June 8
Featured Guest Soloist, “Better” Composed by Kimasi Browne, Erhu Holding
Hands with the World concert, Oirental Concert Hall. Shanghai, China.
May 10
Featured Guest Soloist, “Sky and Dreams” Composed by Kimasi Browne, Erhu
Holding Hands with the World concert. Criental oncert Hall. Shanghai,
China. May 10.
Director, Concert. Gospel Choir (composed of students from Music Education
Department, CCOM). Asia Meets Africa, 2nd International Symposium on
African and Chinese Music.Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM),
Beijing, China. Nov. 7
Soloist, "Strong (Because We Are Africans), Composed by Kimasi Browne,” The
Greatest Love of All,” Jazz Tone Club, Airport Residential, Accra, Ghana,
West Africa. August 7
Soloist, "The Greatest Love of All"; "My Girl," Kashtata s Chasovnika,
15 Moskovska Street., Sofia, Bulgaria. July 16.
Soloist, "The Greatest Love of All." Deneke Hall, Oxford Round Table Banquet,
University of Oxford, Oxford, England. July 13.
Director, Concert, Azusa Pacific University Gospel Choir, Grand Opening
Ceremonies, China Bible Ministry Exhibition, Crystal Cathedral, Garden
Grove, California. April 27.
Ensemble vocalist with Lisu Ethnic Minority Group from Yunan Province,
China, and Azusa Pacific University Gospel Choir,"Wu Sa No Ni,"
(Lisuhua traditional Christian song) Grand Opening Ceremonies, China
Bible Ministry Exhibition, Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove, California.
April 27.
Soloist, "The Greatest Love of All." Flamenco Tapas Banquet, Center for
Intercultural Music Arts, Granada, Splain. April 19
Solo vocalst with piano accompanist, Scott Liu Kai (PRC)."Joy Joy!" Composed by
Kimasi Browne, 9th Bienial Symposium and Festival of the Center for
Intercultural Music Arts (CIMA). Facultad de Ciencias de la Educaccion,
University of Granada, Granada, Spain. April 20
Director, Concert, Azusa Pacific University Gospel Choir and UNIF, "Gospel
Sing," Azusa Pacific University, Felix Event Center. February 4
Director, Concert, Music Education students of CCOM, Concert of the African
Diaspora, Gospel choral music, Central Conservatory of Music, Beining,
China, October 18
Director, Concert, Azusa Pacific University Gospel Choir Fuller Theological
Seminary, 40th Anniversary of the School of Interculturala Studies.
Payton Hall. November 7
Ensemble Vocalist, Bass, Gospel Music Workshop of Ameirca (GMWA) Mass
Choir, CD recording, Milwaukee, WI, WEIS Records,August 19
Ensmble Vocalist, Tenor, Premier new composition, "They Could Not Keep Him
in the Grave" composed by Donald Webber. Presented to the Gospel
Music Wprkshop of America New Music Seminar at the national
convention, Milwaukee, WI.
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Director, "Strange Fruit" Composed by Abel Maripol and Billie Holiday. Arranged
by Kimasi Browne. Performed by Azusa Pacific University Gospel Choir,
with flute soloist Dr. Cheryl L.Keyes. Munson Chapel, Azusa Pacific University,
Azusa, CA. April 14
Director, Concert. Azusa Pacific University Gospel Choir with UNIF, Richard Riley
presented to the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology,
Southern California Chapterheld jointly with the Pacific-Southwest Chapter
of the American Musicological Society. Munson Chapel, Azusa Pacific
University. February 26
Ensemble Vocalist, Bass, GMWA Mass Choir, CD recording, Kansas City, MO,
August 13
Ensemble Vocalist, Bass, GMWA Mass Choir, CD Recording, Tampa, FL,
August 15
Ensemble Vocalist, Bass, GMWA Mass Choir, CD Recording, Detroit, MI,
August 16
Vocal Coach. Azusa Pacific University, School of Music, Azusa, CA
Director. Azusa Pacific University Gospel Choir, School of Music, Azusa, CA
Conductor. Finale, Festival of Christmas, APU Combined Orchestras and
Choruses with Steve Amerson, Orange County Performing Arts Center,
Costa Mesa, CA. December 13.
Vocal Coach. POWER Performing Arts Kids, Faith Community Church, West
Covina, CA
Director. Pomona College Gospel Choir, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Conductor. Gospel Music Workshop Concert, Irish World Music Centre,
Limerick, Republic of Ireland. April 27
Clinician. "African American Gospel Choral Music." A workshop. Irish World
Music Center. University of Limerick, Limerick Republic of Ireland,
April 26-27
Author. "An Introduction." Commissioned inscription. The official formal
introduction placard. Embossed on plexiglass. On permanent display in the
entrance foyer at Hitsville, U.S.A., Detroit, Michigan. Commissioned by the
Motown Historical Museum, 1993-present.
Choral Director. Faith Community Church Choir, West Covina, CA
Director/founder. Faith Community Gospel Ensemble, West
Covina, CA
Director. UCLA, African-American Music Ensemble (84 singers and rhythm
section).
Director/founder.UCLA African-American Choral Ensemble (and rhythm
section).
Conductor, arranger. Public concert, UCLA African-American Choral Ensemble.
Festival of World Music. (26 singers, 9 musicians). California Plaza, Los
Angeles. Friday, October 20.
Conductor, producer, author, choral director. African American Heritage
Celebration. "Unity in Black and White." Multimedia choral, dramatic,
dance production (Choir of 100, Cast of 30) Faith Community Church,
Covina, CA. February 25-26.
Choral conductor, accompanist, arranger. UCLA Ethnomusicology Spring
Festival/ Music of Black Americans Ensemble (75 singers, 4 musicians).
June 1993 and June 1994.
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Conductor, director, coordinator, co-author. African American Heritage
Celebration. "Celebrating the History of Black Gospel Music in
America."Multimedia musical/concert/dance production (,Faith
Community Church, Covina, CA.. February 25-26.
Choir Director and Minister of Music Family Church International,
Monrovia, CA.
Select Compositions and Creative Activity
2011
Organized. First Ambassadorial Concert. Celebrated, honored, and featured
Ethiopian Cultural Emissaries: Girma Yifrashewa, Ato Ezra Abate, and Alemayehu Fanta.
Umiversity of Addis Ababa.Yared School of Music, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, East Africa.
January 3
2008
“Sky and Dreams” (for Voice, Piano, and Erhu) Words and Music by Kimasi L. Browne,
Dedicated to Ma Xiaohui (who recommended this title). Debut performance, Erhu
Holding Hands with the World, Oriental Concert Hall, Shanghai, China. May 10.
2007
“Strong (Because We Are Africans).” Spontaneously composed in tribute to UCLA Black
Alumni Association members. Jazz Tone Club, Airport Residential, Accra, Ghana, West
Africa. August 7.
2007
“Call On the Lord.” Words by Kimasi L. Browne, Music by Kimasi L. Browne, Ma
Xiaohui, and Jonte Moore. Gospel 12-Bar Blues for voice, erhu, piano, acoustic bass,
and soprano, alto, and tenor gospel choir. Debut performance with Kimasi Browne
(vocal soloist-leader), Ma Xiaohui (erhu), Thomas Jaime (acoustic bass), Jonte Moore
(piano), Leititia Ugwueke (direcotr) and APU Gospel Choir. Azusa Pacific
University, Darling Library Rotunda, February 28.
2006
"A Compassionate Man." Composed by Commission for The Family Church
International, Pasadena, California, in honor of Bishop Donnie Williams. Debut
performance, Lake Avenue Congregational Church, Pasadena, California. March 31.
2005
"Black Folk Chiurch Hymn Medley" Arranged by Kimasi L. Browne. Performance
by the Azusa Pacific University Gospel Choir. Azusa Pacific University. April 14
2005
"Stand Fast" Composed by Kimasi L.Browne. Performance by the Azusa Pacific
University Gospel Choir, director Kimasi L. Browne. Azusa Pacific University,
Azusa, CA. February 26
2002
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" Composed by Charles Weley and Feliz
Mendelssohn. Unaccompanied SATB and rehearsal piano arranged by Kimasi L.
Browne. Debut performance by the Pomona College Gospel Choir.Fall Concert.
Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College, Claremont, CA. December 8
2002
"Silent Night." Composed by Joseph Moh and Frank Gruber. SATB and rhythm
arrangement by Kimasi L. Browne. Debut performance by the Pomona College
Gospel Choir.Fall Concert. Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College,
Claremont, CA. December 8
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"The Most Important Thing in Life" for SATB and rhythm. Composed by Kimasi L.
Browne. Debut performance by the Pomona College Gospel Choir.Fall Concert.
Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College, Claremont, CA. December 8
2002
"The First Noel" English carol. SATB and rhythm arrangement by Kimasi L.
Browne. Debut performance by the Pomona College Gospel Choir.Fall Concert.
Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College, Claremont, CA. December 8
2002
"I Will Not War (After the Flesh)" for SATB and rhythm. Composed by Kimasi L.
Browne. Debut performance by the Azusa Pacific University Gospel Choir.Fall
Concert. Munson Capel, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa CA. Novem ber 14
2002
"Healed" for SATB and rhythm. Composed by Kimasi L. Browne. Brass arranged by
David Beatty. Debut performance by the Azusa Pacific University Gospel Choir.Fall
Concert. Munson Capel, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA. Novem ber 14
2002
"Quicken My Intuition" Composed by Kimasi L. Browne. Brass arranged by David
Beatty. Debut performance by the Azusa Pacific University Gospel Choir.Fall
Concert. Munson Capel, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa CA. Novem ber 14
2002
“I Don’t Worry.” Composed by Kimasi L. Browne. Debut performance, APU Gospel
Choir. Directed by Isaac Andrew. Spring Concert 2002, Azusa Pacific University,
Azusa, CA. April 20.
2001
“Angeles We Have Heard On High.” Arranged by Kimasi L. Browne. Debut
performance, APU Gospel Choir, Directed by Kimasi L. Browne Festival of
Christmas. Orange County Performaning Arts Center. December 13
1998
Clinician. "African American Gospel Choral Music." A workshop. Irish World
Music Center. University of Limerick, Limerick Republic of Ireland, April 27
1996
"Lift Up Your Heads" for SATB and rhythm. Composed by Kimasi L. Browne Debut
performance by the UCLA African American Music ensemble, Scheonberg Hall,
UCLA, June
1993
"An Introduction." Commissioned inscription. The official formal introduction
placard. Embossed on plexiglass. On permanent display in the entrance foyer at
Hitsville, U.S.A., Detroit, Michigan. Commissioned by the Motown Historical
Museum, 1993-present
Professional Teaching Experience
Azusa Pacific University Courses Taught
GMUS 502
Seminar oin Music History II
GMUS 590
Directed Research
MUS 302
Soul Music
MUS 301
Music of Africa
MUS 201
Introduction to World Music
MUS 120
Music Fundamentals
MUS 146
Gospe Choir
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Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China,
Musicology Department.Spring
Courses Taught (2008)
Gospel Choir, Musicology Dept.
Gospel Choir, Grades 1-3, Music Education Dept.
Seminar in Gospel Choir Accompaniment, Musicology Dept.
American Popular Culture—Soul Music” (Theoretical Course), Musicology Dept..
Whittier College, Music Dept.
Courses Taught (2000-2001)
A World of Music
Music of Africa
American Popular Music
UC Riverside, Department of Music
Course Taught (1999)
Musical Cultures of Africa
California State University, Long Beach, Department of Black Studies
Courses Taught (1999, 2000)
Afro-American Music
Advanced Studies in Afro-American Music
Pomona College, Department. of Music
Course Taught (2000-2004)
Gospel Choir
Service
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2013 to
present
2011
2011
2011
2011
Member, Vital Worship Grand Steering Committee, College of Music and the Arts
Representative and host from College of Music and the Arts to California (University
Experience {CUE), APU Undergraduate Enrollment Management
Member, Advisory Board, Sally Lee Norton Intercultural Institute (Community)
Member, Advisory Board, Black Men’s Success Initiative (BMSI)
APU Student Center for Reconciliation and Diversity
Member, Advisory
Host, 2014 College of Music and the Arts World Music Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Marc
Battier (University of Paris, Sorbonne) Feb. 17-28
Member, Board of Directors, Biennial Conference on Music and the Arts,University of
the Virgin Islands, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, St. Thomas
Campus
Leader, School of Music Scholarship Discussion Group
Coordinator, School of Music Colloquium
Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, Annual Meeting, Society for
Ethnomusicology, So. Calif. And Hawai’i Chapter, Azusa Pacific University
February 19-20
Faculty Host to 2011 International Short Term Visiting Students from China: Zhang
Si Xu, Zhen Teng, and Yin Zhou Ma, Azusa Pacific University School of
Music in collaboration with International Office of Missions and International
Student Services. February 4-March 15
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Vice President and President-Elect, Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California
and Hawaii Chapter (SEMSCHC) [2010-2012: VP; 2012-2014: Pres.] Feb. 20
2010
Faculy Host to 9 students at regional scholarly conference. SEMSCHC, February 20
2009-present Member, Faculty Research Council, Laurie Schriner, chair
2009-2010
Faculty Host to 2010 International Short Term Visiting Students from China: Zhang
Yuan, Zeng Wang, and Yang Yuli, Azusa Pacific University School of Music
in collaboration with International Student Services. January 25-February 18
2009
Co-Organizer, Public Relations Director, APU liaison, (AMNA) 'Africa Meets North
America,' Dialogue in Music" 3rd International Symposium and Festival.
University of California, Los Angeles, October 22-25, 2009
2009
Peer Reviewer, Thinking Critically Subcomittee, 2010 Conference on Diversity in the
Academy, invited by subcomittee co-chairs Tami Foy and Rema Reynolds
2009
Faculty Host, facilitator and liaison to 2009 Worldc Music Scholar-in-Residence
2009
Co-Chairperson (with Dr, Chris Yoon, Intersections Subcommittee, Diversity in
Academia Conference, Monrovia, California, March 25-27 (forthcoming)
2009
Faculty Host to International Short Term Visiting Students from China Jin Jin, Zhou
Chen and Ge Song Azusa Pacific University School of Music in collaboration
with International Student Services. January 20 - February 20.
2008-09
Plan, organize, and coordinate preparation for 2009 World Music Scholarin Residence (Dr. Gregory Barz of Vanderbilt University, Nashville). In
collaboration with Office of Research and School of Nursing.
September 21-25
2008-09
Lecture, Sabbatical Award Lecture Series. Azusa Paciic University, Office of
Research.
2008-present Member, WASC Trannsformational Scholarshi Task Force.
2008-2010
Member, Worship Sub-Committee, Lucerne Congress (Lucerne III), Cape Town,
South Africa.
2008-09
Public Relations Director and Co-Organizer, 3rd Dialog on Music:
Africa Meets North America (AMNA) 2009 International Symposium
and Festival.” Sponsored by UCLA Herb Alpert School of Musc, Centre for
Intercultural Musicology at Churchill College, Cambridge (UK), Azusa
Pacific University, University of Pittsburg Department of Music, and UCLA
Department of Ethnomuciology and Department of Music. To be held at the
UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of Ethnomusicology,
October 22-24, 2009. Organizing in collaboration with Akin Euba (CIMACC)
Jacqueline DjeDje (UCLA HASOM), Cynthia Tse Kimberlin (MRI),
Kathleen Hood UCLA Ethonomusicology PUBLICATIONS), Martha Rider,
Paul Phillabaum (UCLA SOAA Dean's Office, Benjamin Grahl
(APU SOM)
2008
Devotion Leader, APU Full Faculty Meeting, Azusa Pacific University, Wilden
Hall, February 13.
2008
Faculty Host to International Short Term Visiting Students Xinjie Chen and Xiaoqian
Liu. Azusa Pacific University School of Music in collaboration with
International Student Services. February 1-24
2008
Faculty/Administration Research Mentor APU School of Music. Mentor Dean
Duane Funderburk in preparing research project for Music of Hope during
World War II, fieldwork in London Spring 2009
2007-present Member, APU Scholars Prayer Group, Emily Greisinger--Leader
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2007-08
Member, International Advisory Board, Africa Meets Asia Internatinal Music
Conference and Festival 2008, Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha, Bangalore, India
(Conveneed July 11-16, 2008).
2007-08
Faculty Supervision, Dr. Roberto Catalano, Adjunct Professor of Music
2007-08
Delegate, Africa Meets Asia, 2nd International Symposium on African and Chinese
Music. Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China. November 5-10
2007-present Faculty Research - Scholarship Mentor, APU School of Music,
2007
Special Envoy for APU Office of the Provost to encourage Dr. Akin Euba, UPMC
Southside Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA. August 24-27.
2007
Faculty Research Mentor, APU School of Music, Mentor music faculty member in
preparing scholarly paper for Oxford Round Table presentation, June
2007
Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member, Patricia Shakshur, School of Nursing
2007
Doctoral Examination Committee Member, Patricia Shakshur, School of Nursng
2007
Academic Advisor, in-coming freshmen and transfer students, May 22-23
2007
Delegate, South Africa, Capetown, Durban, Johannesburg, and Soweto. APU
Administrative Investigative delegation, March 3-14
2007
Gospel Tutor to Ma Xiaohui on erhu and voice. February 21-March 1
2007
Plan, organize, and coordinate preparation for 2007 World Music Scholarin Residence (Ma Xiaohui, erhu virtuoso, PRC), February 20-March 2
2006-2008
Member, Diversity Council, Azusa Pacific University
2006-2008
Member, Pedagogy Committee, International Association for the Study of Popular
Music, United States Branch. Term beginning August 2006.
2006-2008
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2006
International Editorial Advisor, African Musicology Online, an international, peerreviewed e-journal on African Musicology.
Special Envoy for APU School of Music, Symposium on Ethnomusicology:
Celebrating Vida Chenoweth’s Legacy, Wheaton and The Libraary of
Congress. Wheaton College Conservatory of Music, Wheaton Illinois.
October 5-7.
Member, Academic Visiion 2016 Task Force: God-Honoring Diversity, APU
Leader, Round Table Discussion Oxford Round Table: "Arts and
Science." Lady Margaret Hall, Universit of Oxford, Oxford, England. July 13.
Chair, paper session, "Manchester Section 6." Conference on Music and Place.
Manchester Institute for Popular Culture. Manchester Metropolitan
University, Manchester, England. June 9
Organizer and Chair, "Negotiating American race and class" International
Association for the Study of Popular Music--United States Branch, 2006
Anual Meeting, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro,
Tennessee. February18.
Chair, paper session, "American Negotiations of Race and Class." International
Association for the Study of Popular Music--United States Branch, 2006
Anual Meeting, Middle Tennesee State University, Murfreesboro,
Tennessee. February 18
Author and speaker, "The History of African American Gospel Music." A speech
presented at Gospel Sing, at the request of APU Multi-Ethnic Student
Association, in support of Black History Month. February 4
Faculty host, visiting professional quintet, UNIF, from Soweto, Johannesburg,
South Africa. January 3-February 10.
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2005-2006
Member, Program Committee for the 2006 Anual Meeting, International
Association for the Study of Popular Music--United States Branch, ,
Murfeesboro State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. February 16-19.
2005
Faculty host, visiting students and faculty from Sweden, Azusa Pacific
University.May 5
2005
Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, Annual Meeting, Society for
Ethnomusicology, So. Calif. Chapter, Azusa Pacific University
February 26-27
2005
Faculty host, visiting celebrity, Al Kashka, Azusa Pacific University. March
2004
Advisory Board Member, United States Representative, Centre for Intercultural
Music Arts
2004
Chair, paper session, "Hip Hop World Part 2", Annual Meeting, Society for
Ethnomusicology, Southern California Chapter, University of California,
Los Angeles, February 22
2004
Organizer and moderator. "Symposium on African Music in the Church." Speakers:
Akin Euba (U. of Pittsburgh), Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje (UCLA), and
Roberta King (Fuller Theological Seminary). Sponsored by the Office of the
Provost and the School of Music, Azusa Pacific University, March 6.
2004
Plan, organize, and coordinate preparation for 2004 World Music Scholarin Residence (Akin Eubai), March 1- 20-March 6, 2007
2004
Faculty Host, visiting faculty and students from Oslo, Norway. Azusa Pacific
University. November
2004
Member, Update Undergraduate Academic Calendar Commitee, Representing
Faculty Senate, Azusa Pacific University
2004
Faculty Delegate, Gospel Music Workshop of America, 35th Annual Convention,
Kansas City, Missouri, August
2003-present Project Director, Songwriter's Biographical Archives establishment project.
Music Division. Gospel Music Workshop of America, Inc.
2003
Chair, paper session, Cultural Identity: Production, Retention, and Contestation"
Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Southern California Chapter,
Loyola Marymount University, February 22
2003
Faculty Delegate, Gospel Music Workshop of America, 35th Annual Convention,
Tampa, Florida, August
2003-2004
Member, Lecture Committee, Popular Music Section, Society for Ethnomusicology
2002-2004
Senator, Faculty Senate, Azusa Pacific University (2004-05 on medical leave)
2002-2004
Chair, Standards 2 Sub-committee, Five-Year Review Committee, Azusa Pacific
University, School of Music
2002-2003
Member, Committee for National Association of Schools of Music Accredidation,
Azusa Pacific University
2002
Member, Search Committee for Special Assistant for University Diversity, Azusa
Pacific University. Office of the Provost
2002
Faculty Delegate, Gospel Music Workshop of America, 35th Annual Convention,
Detroit, Michigan, August 10-17
2002
Faculty Host, Student Recitals, Final Performance Forum, Azusa Pacific University.
April 16
2002
Faculty Host, Cultural Exchange between Shanghai Conservatory of Music and APU
School of Music. President Yan Liqing and the Chord String Quartet. At
request of Dean of School of Music. Azusa Pacific University. March 8-17
2002
Faculty Delegate, American Choral Directors Association, Annual Meeting,
Honolulu, Hawaii, February 18-22
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Faculty Host, Performance Forum, Interview Dr. Timothy Rice and Ivan and
Tsvetanka Varimezov Bulgarian traditional music. February 5
Advising/Counseling/Mentor, special assignment by Undergrad. Program Chair, at
request of V.P. of Admission, Fall
Member, Popular Music Section, Society for Ethnomusioclogy.
Publications Committee, founding member, Society for Ethnomusicology, Southern
California Chapter.
Co-Organizer and Facilitator, First Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium
"Epiphanies and Adventures at the Society for Ethnomusicology Meeting in
Toronto,", Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA, November 7
Coordination Assistant, "Symposium on African Music," Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje,
Organizer. Sponsored by the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History,
UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology and UCLA James Coleman African
Studies Center, UCLA, February 23
Member, Ethnomusicology Advisory Board, College Music Society
Chapter Representative (SEMSCC), Student Concerns Committee, Society for
Ethnomusicology, Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Member Local Arrangements Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology Annual
Meeting, Los Angeles, California.October
Member of founding organizing committee, "Fieldwork in Contemporary
Ethnomusicology," First annual luncheon forum by graduate students for
graduate students, member of founding organizing committee, Society for
Ethnomusicology, Annual Meeting, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California,
October 21
Organizer. "SEM at UCLA," Department of Ethnomusicology Open House,. Oncampus events and designed official brochure for visit to UCLA campus by
conferees to Society of Ethnomusicology's 40th Annual Meeting, Los
Angeles, California, October 21
Organizer and Presenter, "Motown's Contribution to Black History: A Photographic
Exhibition." Juvenile Detention Facility, Sylmar, CA., (Organized in
cooperation with the Los Angeles County Probation Department and Motown
Records L. P. Special Projects Divisions), February 11
Co-Organizer and Co-Facilitator. "Fieldwork as the Beginning: Methods and
Methodology," Facilitator, co-organized with Sonja Seaman,
Ethnomusicology and Systematic Musicology Students Association,
UCLA, February 9
Member, Program Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October.
Member, Local Arrangements Committee, Annual Meeting, Society for
Ethnomusicology Southern California Chapter, UCLA, February.
Registration Coordinator, Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology
Southern California Chapter, UCLA, February.
Student. Representative, School of the Arts Executive Committee, UCLA.
Chapter Representative (SEMSCC;), Student Concerns Committee,
Society for Ethnomusicology, Annual Meeting, Los Angeles,
California, October
Member, UCLA Ethnomusicology Graduate Students Association
Chapter Representative, Student Concerns Committee, Society for
Ethnomusicology, Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October
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Fieldwork and Ethnographic Research
2011
United States (Connecticutt-Middletown) 1 dat, ethnographic investigation
2011
Egypt, North Africa (Cairo, Giza, Memphis, Alexandria) 4 days, ethnographic
investigstion
2010
Ethiopia (Addis Ababa, Lalibela, Axum) 8 days, ethnographic investigaton
2010
Morroco , North Africa-1 day, ethnographic investgation
2008
China (Beijing) March –June, archival and etnographic investigation
Ethnographic Research - Utilizing Slobin-Titon Music Culture
Outline to teach Afriican American Soul Music in English with
Translation to Chinese Students in Central Conservatory of Music,
Xi Cheng District, Beijing (March – June)
Prel;iminary Archival and Ethnographic Research—Role of Musicians
and Instruments in the Prayer Life of Ming and Qing Dynasty
Emporers; Divine Music Administration Office,
Temple of Heaven, Beijing (June)
2007
Ghana, West Africa (Accra, Elmina, Kumasi) 13 days, ethnographic investigation
2006
United Kingdom (Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Cheshire, Oxfordshire,
Yorkshire, London; Northern Ireland; and North Wales)
8 weeks; ethnographic investigation
2006
Bulgaria (Sofia) 4 days; ethnographic investigation
2006
Spain (Granada) 8 days, ethnographic investigation
2005
China (Beijing) 8 days, ethnographic investigation
2005
United States (Wisconsin--Milwaukee) 10 days, ethnographic investigation
2004
United States (California--Los Angeles) 2 days, ethnographic investigation
2004
United States (Missouri--Kansas City) 10 days, ethnographic investigation
2003
United States (Florida--Tampa) 10 days days ethnomgraphic investigation
2002
United States (Michigan—Detroit) 10 days, ethnographic investigation
2002
United Kingdom (Scotland--Edinburgh) one week; ethnographic investigation
2001
United States (Michigan—Detroit) one week, ethnographic investigation
1999
1998
1996
1996
1995
1994
1993
United States (California--Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Valencia)
one week, ethnographic investigation
United Kingdom (England, Wales), Rep. of Ireland,
three months, ethnographic investigation
Canada (Ontario—Toronto) one week, archival retrival
United Kingdom (England--London and Oxford) one week, archival retrival
United States (Michigan--Detroit and Dearborn)
two weeks, ethnographic investigation
United States (Michigan—Detroit) one week, ethnographic investigation
United States (Michigan--Detroit and Dearborn)
three weeks, oral history documentation
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Professional Memberships and Boards
Organization Memberships
British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE, United Kingdom)
International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-US)
Pedagogy Committee
Pedagogy Interest Group
International Council for Tratitional Music (ICTM)
Oxford Round Table, (University of Oxford, Oxford, England)
Oxford University Society (University of Oxford, Oxford, England)
Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM, Indiana University, Bloomington)
African Music Section
Education Section
Network of Christian Ethnomusicologists at SEM
Popular Music Section
Society for Ethnomusicology, Southern California and Hawaii Chapter (SEMSCHC)
President (2012-2014)
Vice President (2010-2012)
Board Memberships
African Musicology Online, International Editorial Advisory Board
Biennial Converence on Music and the Arts, Board of Directors (US Virgin Islands)
Black Men’s Success Initiative (BMSI) Advisory Board
Sally Lee Norton Intercultural Institute Advisory Board
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