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Bruce Johnson was formerly Professor, School of English, University of New South Wales (UNSW), during which he also held numerous visiting lectureships and professorships including at the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Edinburgh's Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Liverpool's Institute for Popular Music, and Turku's Department of Cultural History where he is currently based as Honorary Docent, having left UNSW in 2005 to take up a range of appointments elsewhere. In addition to the Turku affliliation, he is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Contemporary Music Studies, Macquarie University and Visiting Professor of Music at the Universities of Glasgow and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Apart from Australia, he has conducted cultural fieldwork in Scandinavia and Russia. His teaching and research have ranged historically from the Renaissance to (post) modernity, and his career publication list runs to nearly 400 itmes, from encylopedia entries to major reference works including The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz. He has been active as in concert, touring and recording work as a Jazz musician, also as a record producer and an award winning broadcaster, and was the prime mover in setting up the Australian Jazz Archives in Canberra.

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Research Interests

The history of the modern era as an acoustic phenomenon: the role of sound in the confrontations which generated modernity as mapped through such demarcations as class, gender, nation state, race. This work involves such areas as literacy and literature as an information economy competing with sound, sound and visual technologies, the acoustics of the modern city, and music. With Dr Martin Cloonan at Glasgow, currently writing a book on the history of music and violence.

Principal Publications

Johnson, B. (2003) Translation Editor. Gender and Qualitative Methods, ed Helmi Järviluoma, Pirkko Moisala, Anni Vikko ( London, Sage)

Johnson, B. (2000) The Inaudible Music: Jazz, Gender and Australian Modernity (Sydney, Currency Press) (Book and CD)

Johnson, B, with Tony Mitchell and Peter Doyle, eds, Changing Sounds: New Directions and Configurations in Popular Music. International Association For Popular Music 1999 10th International Conference Proceedings (Sydney, University of Technology Sydney, 2000).

Johnson, B. (1994) Translation Editor, Soundscapes: Essays on Vroom and Moo, ed. H. Järviluoma (Department of Folk Tradition/Institute of Rhythm Music, Finland)

Johnson, B. et al (eds) (1976), Culture and Domination (Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Birmingham)

Johnson, B. (1987) The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz Melbourne, ( Oxford University Press) Nominated “Outstanding Academic Book. 1988-89” by the academic review Choice

Thesis Areas Supervised

Constructing identity in communities under threat: Irish urban street murals. PhD 2003
The making of pop celebrity; Department of Cultural History, University of Turku.PhD 2000
The musical articulation of English Identity in the postwar period; Department of Cultural history, University of Turku. PhD 2002
Stage design in stadium rock concerts, Department of Cultural History, University of Turku. Current

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