Professor Kimasi L. Browne This is Me

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1. 1. Soul Source:a rare and northern soul site :: Article

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   Published on: 6/9/2006   Last Visited: 7/9/2006

   You may have read a recent news article on here about the availbility of "Soul Or Nothing" a eBook by Kimasi L. Browne via Amazon
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   Kimasi L. Browne, Ph.D. (Azusa Pacific University), USA
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   I will make use of perspectives from the works of Mark Slobin (1993), Stuart Hall (1989; 1996); Joanne Hollows and Katie Milestone (1998); Russ Winstanley and David Nowell (1996); Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton (2000); Anthony Giddens (1991); and Kimasi Browne (1999: 2005).
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   This venue was the first to "hold 'all nighters' in the North West of England and [did] so until it closed at the beginning of the seventies" (Browne 2005: 84).
   
   The Golden Era of Northern Soul dates from 1971 to 1981.
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   In my Ph.D. dissertation, "Soul or Nothing: The Formation of Cultural Identity on the British Northern Soul Scene" (Browne 2005:195), I use the term Â"cultural identityÂ" as an encompassing both Â"self identityÂ"-as-the-individual in relation to society at large; and the Â"group identityÂ"-as-a-collective of individuals who ascribe "to" and participate "in" agreed upon patterns of behavior and ways of understanding.
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   Browne, Kimasi L. 2005. 'Soul or Nothing': The Formation of Cultural Identity on the British Northern Soul Scene. Ph.D. Dissertation. The University of California, Los Angeles.
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   Kimasi L. Browne is assistant professor and director of gospel choir and ethnomusicology at Azusa Pacific University. He joined that faculty in fall 2001 and directed the Gospel Choir from 2001 to 2006. In addition to his work with the Gospel Choir, he developed a series called World Music at APU and brought traditional master-musicians to campus from Bulgaria, India, China, Hong Kong, Nigeria, South Africa, and Italy. He teaches ethnomusicology courses (Introduction to World Music, Music of Africa, Soul Music) and the graduate Seminar in Music History II (1800 to the present).
   
   He has conducted field research in Los Angeles, Detroit, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Tampa, Toronto, and in England, Wales, Scotland, the Republic of Ireland, Granada, Spain, and in Beijing, People's Republic of China, supported by grants from the Institute of American Culture, the UCLA Center for African American Studies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Professor Browne is a respected international scholar who regularly presents lectures at international conferences on British underground youth culture, African American soul music, and gospel music. His work has been published by the University of California Press, MRI Press, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, and peer-reviewed journals: Intercultural Music Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology, and the Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology. He holds a B.A. degree in Music Composition from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Ethnomusicology from UCLA.