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Expert Profile
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Kimasi Browne, Ph.D.
Director of Ethnomusicology; Associate Professor of Music
Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3586
Fax: (626) 969-7419
Email: kbrowne@apu.edu
 
Education
Ph.D.- Ethnomusicology, UCLA, 2005
M.A.- Ethnomusicology, UCLA, 1995
B.A.- Music Composition, California State Polytechnic University, 1992
A.A.- Fine Arts (Music), Citrus College, 1989
Profile
Browne is an expert in ethnomusicology, gospel music, music history and fundamentals, music of Africa, and world music. He can also comment on British underground youth culture, African American soul music, and Gospel music. He is a respected international scholar who regularly presents lectures at international conferences on British underground youth culture, African American soul music, and Gospel music. He organized and hosted the first Symposium on African Music in the Church held in March 2004 at APU.
Expertise
African Music Secular and Sacred Popular Culture (Gospel, R&B, Motown, Soul Music)
British Underground Youth Culture (Northern and Rare Soul)
Ethnomusicology in the Christian Academy
Gospel Music
Graduate Music History, Music Fundamentals
World Music