Publications

Book review

• Johnson-Williams, Erin (2023). ‘The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain’, Journal of British Studies 62, no. 2 (2023): 563–564.  


• ‘Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire’, NAMBSA Reviews 9, no. 1/2 (2022): 8–10.


• Johnson-Williams, Erin (2021). Online EDI Resources: Towards a Reflexive Archive. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle https://doi.org/10.1017/rrc.2021.3 


• Johnson-Williams, Erin (2020). Class, Control, & Classical Music. NABMSA Reviews (7/1): 7–9.


• Johnson-Williams, Erin (2018). Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789–1851. Context 256.


• Johnson-Williams, Erin (2017). Musics of the Free State: Reflections on a Musical Past, Present, and Future. Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa 14(1-2): 99-102.

Chapter in book

• Johnson-Williams, Erin. ‘Secularizing the Sacred, Sanctifying the Commercial: Tonic Sol-fa and the Professionalization of Evangelical Hymnody’, in Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by James Grande and Brian Murray (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), 175–199.


• Johnson-Williams, Erin, and Rachel Bryant Davies (2022). ‘Introduction: Encountering the Intersectional Archive’, in Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth Century Archive: New Essays on Power and Discourse, edited by Rachel Bryant Davies and Erin Johnson-Williams (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), 1–30.


• Johnson-Williams, Erin (2022). ‘Enclosing Archival Sound: Colonial Singing as Discipline and Resistance’, in Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth Century Archive: New Essays on Power and Discourse, edited by Rachel Bryant Davies and Erin Johnson-Williams (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), 115–136.


• Johnson-Williams, Erin (2019). Music Education: The Case of Annie Curwen. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing. Scholl, Lesa Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.


• Johnson-Williams, Erin (2019). Musical Discipline and Liberal Reform. In Music and Victorian Liberalism: Composing the Liberal Subject. Collins, Sarah. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Journal Special Issues

Special issue, ‘Music, Sound and Maternity’, edited by Erin Johnson-Williams and Michelle Meinhart, Women and Music 26 (2022).

Special issue of Postcolonial Studies, ‘Music, Empire, Colonialism: Sounding the Archives’, edited by Philip Burnett, Erin Johnson-Williams and Yvonne Liao (2023).

 

Special issue, ‘Hymns Beyond the Congregation’, edited by Erin Johnson-Williams and Philip Burnett  Yale Journal of Music and Religion, 8, no. 2 (2022).

 

Edited book

• Johnson-Williams, Erin, Roe-Min Kok, and Yvonne Liao (2024). The Oxford Handbook of Music Colonialism (under contract with Oxford University Press)


• Erin Johnson-Williams and Philip Burnett (eds), Hymns and Constructions of Race: Mobility, Agency, De/coloniality (Routledge, 2024).


• Rachel Bryant Davies and Erin Johnson-Williams (eds), Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth-Century Archive: New Essays on Power and Discourse (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022).

Journal Article

• ‘Valuing Whiteness: The Presumed Innocence of Musical Truth’, Current Musicology 109-110 (2022): 47-73. https://doi.org/10.52214/cm.v109i.8729 


• ‘Archiving the Audible Debris of Empire: On a Mission Between Africa and Britain’, Postcolonial Studies (2023): https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2023.2243082.


• with Philip Burnett and Yvonne Liao, ‘Music, Empire, Colonialism: Sounding the Archives’, Postcolonial Studies (2023):


• https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2023.2243070


• ‘Sonic Congregating: The Hymn as National British Spectacle’, Yale Journal of Music and Religion 8, no. 2 (2022): 125–147.With Philip Burnett, ‘(Special Section Introduction) Hymns Beyond the Congregation: Constructions of Identity and Legacies of Meaning’, Yale Journal of Music and Religion 8, no. 2 (2022): 85–89.


• With Michelle Meinhart, ‘Introduction’, to special issue, ‘Music, Sound and Maternity’, edited by Erin Johnson-Williams and Michelle Meinhart, Women and Music 26 (2022): 68–73.‘Silencing “Savage” Soundscapes: Hearing C-Section Births in the British Imperial Record’, in special issue, ‘Music, Sound and Maternity’, edited by Erin Johnson-Williams and Michelle Meinhart, Women and Music 26 (2022): 101–124.


• Johnson-Williams, Erin (2020). “The Concertina’s Deadly Work in the Trenches’: Soundscapes of Boer War Suffering’, Nineteenth-Century Music Review (2022): doi:10.1017/S1479409822000040.


• Johnson-Williams, Erin (2020). The Examiner and the Evangelist: Authorities of Music and Empire, c.1894. Journal of the Royal Musical Association 145(2): pp. 317-350.


• Johnson-Hill, Erin (2012). Miscellany and Collegiality in the British Periodical Press: The Harmonicon (1823–1833). Nineteenth-Century Music Review 9(2): 255-293.