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About Kristen Turner

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.

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:

Music May 11, 2022

From Servant to Savant

Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution

Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden

Hosted by Kristen Turner
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. But, how did that concept …
Music April 6, 2022

The Creative Labor of Music Patronage in Interwar France

Louis K. Epstein

Hosted by Kristen Turner
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 research. In The Creative …
Music February 9, 2022

This Is America

Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape

Katie Rios

Hosted by Kristen Turner
“This is America”: Race Gender and Politics in America’s Musical Landscape by Katie Rios (Lexington Books, 2021) examines an eclectic mix of different artists and cultural products, from Laurie Anderson …
Music January 6, 2022

Lying in the Middle

Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America

Jake Johnson

Hosted by Kristen Turner
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 subject the artifice of musicals—no …
Music December 20, 2021

Instruments of Empire

Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music During US Colonization of the Philippines

Mary Talusan

Hosted by Kristen Turner
Instruments of Empire: Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music during US Colonization of the Philippines published in 2021 by the University Press of Mississippi by Mary Talusan focuses on …
Music October 29, 2021

Industry

Bang on a Can and New Music in the Marketplace

William Robin

Hosted by Kristen Turner
Presenting eclectic, irreverent marathons of experimental music in crumbling venues on the Lower East Side, Bang on a Can sold out concerts for a genre that had been long considered …
Music June 24, 2021

George Frederick Bristow

Katherine K. Preston

Hosted by Kristen Turner
George Frederick Bristow, born in 1825, was a significant musical figure in the United States from the 1850s until his death in 1898. Now, almost one hundred years after his …
Music June 11, 2021

Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony

Douglas W. Shadle

Hosted by Kristen Turner
Most music students have been taught that the New World Symphony was the first piece of classical music written in an American national style which Antonín Dvorák invented when he …
Music May 28, 2021

Bossa Mundo

Brazilian Music in Transnational Media Industries

K. E. Goldschmitt

Hosted by Kristen Turner
Bossa Mundo: Brazilian Music in Transnational Media Industries (Oxford University Press, 2020) takes on the circulation of Brazilian music in the Global North since the 1960s. The challenge faced by Brazilian …
Music May 4, 2021

Black Diamond Queens

African American Women and Rock and Roll

Maureen Mahon

Hosted by Kristen Turner
Maureen Mahon’s book, Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll (Duke University Press, 2020), focuses on the contributions to rock and roll by African American women from …
Music April 9, 2021

Ballet in the Cold War

A Soviet-American Exchange

Anne Searcy

Hosted by Kristen Turner
During the Cold War, cultural diplomacy was one way that the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union tried to cultivate goodwill towards their countries. As Anne Searcy …
Music March 15, 2021

Appalachian Spring

Original Ballet Version

J. DeLapp-Birkett and Aaron Sherber

Hosted by Kristen Turner
Premiered in 1944, Appalachian Spring is a ballet developed in a close collaboration between the composer Aaron Copland and choreographer Martha Graham. It is one of Copland’s most famous compositions …
Music February 8, 2021

Resonant Recoveries

French Music and Trauma Between the World Wars

Jillian C. Rogers

Hosted by Kristen Turner
Understanding how people cope with large-scale traumatic events has become more urgent as we continue to cope with the effects of the pandemic. In Resonant Recoveries: French Music and Trauma …
Music January 26, 2021

Musical Solidarities

Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland

Andrea Bohlman

Hosted by Kristen Turner
Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland (Oxford University Press, 2020) by Andrea Bohlman is a study of the music of dissent and protest during the Solidarity …
Music December 14, 2020

How Belfast Got the Blues

A Cultural History of Popular Music in The 1960s

Noel Mclaughlin and Joanna Braniff

Hosted by Kristen Turner
There is no shortage of books about the British Invasion or the history of R&B and the Blues in the United Kingdom. Belfast might seem like something of a peripheral …
Music October 30, 2020

The Meaning of Soul

Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s

Emily J. Lordi

Hosted by Kristen Turner
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 1960s (Duke University Press 2020) …
Music October 26, 2020

Augusta Browne

Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America

Bonny H. Miller

Hosted by Kristen Turner
Born around 1820, Augusta Browne was a pianist, organist, composer, music pedagogue, entrepreneur, music critic, and writer. In Augusta Browne: Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America (University of …
Music September 10, 2020

Cultivated by Hand

Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic

Glenda Goodman

Hosted by Kristen Turner
Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven were all working in Europe during the last quarter of the eighteenth century, so perhaps it is no surprise that musicologists have diligently studied these men …
Music August 14, 2020

Heart of a Woman

The Life and Music of Florence B. Price

Rae Linda Brown

Hosted by Kristen Turner
In 1933, the Chicago Symphony performed the Symphony in E Minor by Florence B. Price. It was the first time a major American orchestra played a composition by an African …
Music July 31, 2020

Imitation Artist

Gertrude Hoffman’s Life in Vaudeville and Dance

Sunny Stalter-Pace

Hosted by Kristen Turner
Gertrude Hoffman is one of many entertainers who were big stars in vaudeville before World War I, but whose celebrity faded as the American public was seduced by radio and …
Music July 6, 2020

Music for the Kingdom of Shadows

Cinema Accompaniment in the Age of Spiritualism

Kendra Preston Leonard

Hosted by Kristen Turner
We might call movies made before the advent of the talkies in 1927 silent films—but for the audience, they were certainly not silent. Live orchestras and solo instrumentalists accompanied early …
Music June 2, 2020

Everybody’s Doin’ It

Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917

Dale Cockrell

Hosted by Kristen Turner
Most books about American music ask how it sounded, who wrote it, or who performed it. In his new book, Everybody’s Doin’ It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York …
Music April 24, 2020

I’d Fight the World

A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music

Peter La Chapelle

Hosted by Kristen Turner
Historians, musicologists, and sociologists have long studied the relationship between politics and music. Peter La Chapelle’s new book, I’d Fight the World: A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country …
Music March 26, 2020

Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro Soundtrack

Kunio Hara

Hosted by Kristen Turner
A beloved Japanese anime move released in 1988, My Neighbor Totoro tells the story of two sisters, Satsuki and Mei, as they deal with the separation from their mother who …