LC control no. | n 80026740 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942- |
Variant(s) | Johnson, Bernice, 1942- Johnson Reagon, Bernice, 1942- |
Biography/History note | Individual was a Grammy awardee, a Peabody awardee and a Presidential Medal awardee. |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 19421004 |
Place of birth | Albany (Ga.) |
Affiliation | Howard University Smithsonian Institution Harambee Singers Sweet Honey in the Rock (Musical group) American University (Washington, D.C.) Spelman College |
Profession or occupation | Historians Singers Composers Educators |
Found in | Folk songs: the South. [Phonodisc] 1965. All music guide WWW site, Apr. 16, 2001 (Bernice Johnson Reagon, b. Oct 4, 1942 in Dougherty City, GA) Information from 678 converted Dec. 17, 2014 (Negro singer) African American National Biography, accessed March 21, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Reagon, Bernice Johnson; Bernice Johnson; musician, historian, singer, composer, educator; born 04 October 1942 in Albany, Georgia, United States; studied voice at Albany State College (1959-1962); BA in History from Spelman College (1970); PhD in History from Howard University (1975); founding member and director of Harambee Singers in Atlanta (1966); founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, Grammy Award-winning cappella (1973-2003); worked as a folklorist, program director, and curator for the Smithsonian Institution (1974); was professor of history at American University, Washington DC (1993); received the Peabody Award for Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Traditions (1994); won Presidential Medal (1995), Isadora Duncan Award (1996), Leeway Laurel National Award for Women in the Arts (2000); William and Camille Cosby Endowed Professor in the Fine Arts at Spelman College (2002-2004)) Seeger, Pete. Live at Newport, 1993: container, insert (Bernice Johnson) |