Kira Thurman

Kira Thurman is an American historian and musicologist.[1] She was a 2017 Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow.[2]

She is a classically trained pianist who grew up in Vienna.[3] She graduated from University of Rochester and Eastman School of Music. She is a professor at University of Michigan.[4]

Her article, "Performing Lieder, Hearing Race: Debating Blackness, Whiteness, and German National Identity in Interwar Central Europe" won the Central European Historical Society's Annelise Thimme prize for best article published in 2019/2020.[5][3]

Singing like Germans has thus far won seven prizes: the Marfield Prize (National Award for Arts Writing), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Gleason Book Award, the German Studies Association's DAAD prize for best book in History/Social Sciences,[6] the Royal Musical Association's Best Monograph Prize,[7] the American Historical Association's George Mosse Prize,[8] the American Musicological Society's Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award,[9] and the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures (honorable mention).[10] NPR named it one of the Best Books of 2021.[11][3]

Works
  • Singing Like Germans : Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms Cornell University Press, 2021. ISBN 9781501759840 [12][13][14][15]
  • Thurman, Kira (2021-08-27). "When Europe Offered Black Composers an Ear". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-03.

References
  1. "Classical Music's Iron Curtain". The New Yorker. 2022-03-17. Retrieved 2022-06-03.
  2. "Kira Thurman". American Academy. Retrieved 2022-06-03.
  3. "Kira Thurman | U-M LSA History".
  4. "Kira Thurman | U-M LSA History". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-03.
  5. "2020 Annelise Thimme Article Prize – Central European History Society". Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  6. https://www.thegsa.org/prizes/daadgsa-book-prizes/daadgsa-book-prize-history-social-science
  7. "RMA/Cambridge University Press Book Prize 2022 – Royal Musical Association". Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  8. "George L. Mosse Prize Recipients | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  9. "2022 AMS Award Winners - American Musicological Society".
  10. "Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic..." Modern Language Association. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  11. "Books We Love". NPR. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  12. "Symphony of Forgotten Geniuses | U-M LSA U-M College of LSA". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-03.
  13. "Face the music: Did Europe really lend an ear to Black composers?". The Independent. 2021-09-02. Retrieved 2022-06-03.
  14. Zeitung, Süddeutsche. "Kira Thurman: "Als könnte man nur entweder schwarz oder deutsch sein"". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-06-03.
  15. Rundfunk, Bayerischer (2022-03-22). "Rassismus in den USA: Warum Deutschland für schwarze Künstlerinnen eine Chance war | BR-Klassik". www.br-klassik.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-06-03.


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