Book

Singing Like Germans

Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms

Kira Thurman

2021

Cornell University Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Book Review

Black Voices, German Song

What did German listeners hear when African American singers performed Schubert or Brahms?

by Adam Kirsch via New York Review of Books on January 20, 2022
Book Review

Classical Music and the Color Line

Despite its universalist claims, the field is reckoning with a long legacy of racial exclusion.

by Douglas Shadle via Boston Review on December 15, 2021

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Marian Anderson looking downwards

Marian Anderson’s Bone-Chilling Rendition of “Crucifixion”

Her performances of the Black spiritual in the nineteen-thirties caused American and European audiences to fall silent in awe.

by Alex Ross via The New Yorker on October 19, 2021

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