Johnson Participates in Effort to Increase Global Access to Music Education 4/30/2007 2:35:07 PM  E-Mail Daniel Johnson, assistant professor and assistant chair of the music department, is participating with a national research team to facilitate global access to music education research. The team has recently created an online bibliography, a "webliography," for both teachers and other researchers studying music education. The research team is being led by Cecilia Chu Wang from the University of Kentucky. Other members include David W. Sogin, also from the University of Kentucky, as well as Carlos Abril from Northwestern University. The team began collaborating in 2003 on ways to develop an online database and enhance understanding of multi-cultural music education. The webliography, now hosted by the University of Kentucky, is a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of research in the sub-discipline of Orff Schulwerk, a way of teaching music and movement. Recently listed by the University of Manchester (England) as part of the Institute for Arts and Humanities, the webliography includes research literature focused on music teaching and learning, incorporating resources from countries around the world. Prior to the creation of this webliography, research in Orff Schulwerk was scattered and somewhat elusive. The webliography was designed to address this gap with the user in mind. The research team plans to update the entries and expand the database and to include studies from around the world. In related projects, the research team has presented on multicultural issues at national and international conferences sponsored by the American Orff-Schulwerk Association (AOSA) and the International Society for Music Education (ISME) in Birmingham, Alabama, in Tenerife, Spain and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Future presentations will take the team to Bologna, Italy in the summer of 2008. View online. At UNCW, Johnson teaches applied tuba and euphonium studies and courses in music education, music technology, and the Honors Scholars Program. He is a multi-instrumentalist who has performed as principal tubist with the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra, the Long Bay Symphony, and the UNCW Faculty Brass Quintet. He also performs with and directs the UNCW Early Music Consort. Johnson also conducts Tuba Christmas, an annual performance of traditional carols by a tuba-euphonium ensemble.