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About Kristen Turner
Kristen M. Turner is a lecturer in the music and honors departments at North Carolina State University. She co-authored Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teacher’s Guide (Routledge, 2022) with Horace Maxile. Her research on U.S. operatic culture and popular entertainment at the turn of the twentieth century has appeared in the Journal of the Society for American Music, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Musical Quarterly, the Journal of Musicological Research, and a number of collected editions including the Cambridge Companion to Gershwin (CUP, 2019), and Carmen Abroad: Bizet’s Opera on the Global Stage (CUP, 2019) which received the 2021 RMA/Cambridge University Press Outstanding Edited Collection Book Prize. She is past president of the AMS-Southeast Chapter and currently serves on the Society of American Music’s Board of Trustees.Kristen M. Turner is a lecturer in the music and honors departments at North Carolina State University. Her research centers on race and class in American popular entertainment at the turn of the twentieth century.
NBN Episodes hosted by Kristen:
October 25, 2024
Opera for Everyone
Every year a relatively small number of canonic operas are produced around the world. Many companies shy away from new works, afraid of alienating a p…
July 15, 2024
The Meaning of Soul
Soul is one of those concepts that is often evoked, but rarely satisfactorily defined. In The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 19…
July 7, 2024
The Possibility Machine
Las Vegas is a place the American dream made; a city built in the middle of desert visited by millions of people every year hoping to make their dream…
May 12, 2024
Circle of Winners
Founded in 1925, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides support to what their current website says are "exceptional individuals in pur…
April 27, 2024
Imagining Musical Pasts
Imagining Musical Pasts: the Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson (Clemson University Press, 2023) by Kr…
March 12, 2024
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) was one of America’s greatest musicians. In this major biography, Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer who Transforme…
February 3, 2024
The Beat Cop
Francis O’Neill (1848–1936) was a Chicago police officer and a folk music collector. Michael O’Malley connects these two seemingly unrelated activitie…
December 18, 2023
T.O.B.A. Time
Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for "tough on black artists." But the Theater Owner's Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) pl…
November 15, 2023
Musical Migration and Imperial New York
The heart of Brigid Cohen’s Musical Migration and Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes (University of Chicago Press, 2022) are the connections for…
May 3, 2023
On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone
On Music Theory and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone (University of Michigan Press, 2023) by Philip Ewell is an unflinching look at white supr…
March 19, 2023
Literacy in a Long Blues Note
Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Coretta M. Pittman (Universi…
March 11, 2023
Sportin' Life
John W. Bubbles was an actor, singer, comedian, and most importantly, a dancer. Born in 1902, Bubbles was an innovator in the jazz tap style and half …
February 14, 2023
Queer Voices in Hip Hop
Notions of hip hop authenticity, as expressed both within hip hop communities and in the larger American culture, rely on the construction of the rapp…
December 8, 2022
An American Singing Heritage
The Music of the United States of America Series of musical editions is a monumental undertaking funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities w…
September 19, 2022
My Old Kentucky Home
Any song as old and as familiar as “My Old Kentucky Home” is bound to have accrued many different meanings and an interesting history. Emily Bingham’s…
September 2, 2022
O Say Can You Hear?
The national anthem of the United States is familiar around the world from Olympic medal ceremonies and American patriotic celebrations. Like anything…
July 11, 2022
Freedom Girls
Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop (Oxford University Press, 2021) by Alexandra M. Apolloni is about how the vocal performances of…
June 21, 2022
Singing Like Germans
Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms by Kira Thurman (Cornell University Press, 2021) is a truly interdisc…
May 11, 2022
From Servant to Savant
Today’s copyright laws are predicated on the idea that music is intellectual property; a commodity that has value to its creator and to its publisher.…
April 6, 2022
The Creative Labor of Music Patronage in Interwar France
Patronage has long been an important topic of study in musicology, but is much more likely to be one that specialists in medieval or renaissance music…
February 9, 2022
This Is America
“This is America”: Race Gender and Politics in America’s Musical Landscape by Katie Rios (Lexington Books, 2021) examines an eclectic mix of different…
January 6, 2022
Lying in the Middle
Jake Johnson, author of Lying in the Middle: Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America (University of Illinois Press, 2021) takes as his subj…
December 20, 2021
Instruments of Empire
Instruments of Empire: Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music during US Colonization of the Philippines published in 2021 by the …
October 29, 2021
Industry
Presenting eclectic, irreverent marathons of experimental music in crumbling venues on the Lower East Side, Bang on a Can sold out concerts for a genr…