Edmond Johnson is currently a doctoral candidate in musicology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His principal area of research focuses on the revival of early music during the first half of the 20th century, with a particular emphasis on the movement's interdisciplinary conjunctions and connections with modernism and neoclassical composition. Additionally, he is interested in issues of musical representation, preservation, and aesthetics and his work has included research in the areas of film music, early phonograph culture, and musical automata.

Edmond has presented papers at several national conferences, including at the American Musicological Society's 2008 meeting in Nashville. He has twice been the recipient of the UCSB Humanities Research Assistantship (a full-year dissertation fellowship) and is currently serving as Secretary to the Board of Directors for the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM). He is an active member of the American Musical Instrument Society and was the 2007 winner of the society's Frederick R. Selch Award. He has performed on saxophone, piano, and harpsichord, and is also a novice practitioner of the theremin. He is currently writing his dissertation, entitled Revival and Antiquation: Modernism's Musical Pasts.