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