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SUMMARY: Ziegler Lecture: Kira Thurman\, “Interwar  Liederabende  and the M
 atter of Blackness”
DESCRIPTION: Join us on March 19 at 12:00 pm (noon) for the virtual Ziegler
  Lecture Series\, featuring Kira Thurman of the University of Michigan\, Hi
 story Department. This talk is co-sponsored by the UBC School of Music.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p>Join us on March 19 at 12:00 pm (noon) for
  the virtual Ziegler Lecture Series\, featuring Kira Thurman of the Univers
 ity of Michigan\, History Department. This talk is co-sponsored by the UBC 
 School of Music.</p><p>Register here via Zoom: <a href="https://ubc.zoom.us
 /meeting/register/u50rfu2oqz4rHtye15KQ3rDVOs50E9I4XDTM">https://ubc.zoom.us
 /meeting/register/u50rfu2oqz4rHtye15KQ3rDVOs50E9I4XDTM</a></p><p><strong>Ti
 tle:</strong> "Interwar <em>Liederabende</em> and the Matter of Blackness"<
 /p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> African American renditions of Brahms or B
 eethoven offer a powerful musical counternarrative to our historical narrat
 ives of European identity formation because what they performed struck righ
 t at the heart of German culture and the question of whom it belonged to. T
 heir rigorous study and successful execution of German lieder suggest that\
 , contrary to ongoing far-right biological claims to German national identi
 ty\, Germanness is something that can be not only performed but also learne
 d.</p><p><img class="alignleft wp-image-17240 size-medium" src="https://cen
 e.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2020/12/KiraThurman-230x300.j
 pg" alt="" width="230" height="300" /></p><p><strong>Bio: </strong>Dr. Kira
  Thurman is Assistant Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Liter
 atures at the U. Michigan. Her research focuses on the relationship between
  music and national identity in European history\, and Europe's historical 
 and contemporary relationship with the Black diaspora. Her article\, “Black
  Venus\, White Bayreuth: Race\, Sexuality\, and the De-Politicization of Wa
 gner in Postwar West Germany” won the German Studies Association’s prize fo
 r best paper by a graduate student in 2011 and the DAAD prize for best arti
 cle on German history in 2014. Her current book project is entitled: Singin
 g Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach\, Beethoven and Brahms.
  Her work has previously appeared in German Studies Review\, the Journal of
  World History\, Journal of the American Musicological Society (JAMS)\, and
  Opera Quarterly.</p>
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