Kristen Turner

Bio

Kristen M. Turner holds degrees from UNC-Greensboro, the Eastman School of Music, and UNC-Chapel Hill. Her dissertation, “Opera in English: Class and Culture in America, 1878-1910,” received a Glen Haydon Award for an Outstanding Dissertation in Musicology. She has presented at numerous conferences including the national meetings of the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music. Her work has been published in the Journal of the Society for American Music, and the Journal of Musicological Research. Her research interests are in 19th century opera, 19th and 20th century American musical culture, African American music, music and politics, and music and gender.

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Area(s) of Expertise

Musicology, 19th century opera, 19th and 20th century American musical culture, African American music, music and politics, music and gender

Publications

• Respectability, Prestige, and the Whiteness of Opera in American Popular Entertainment from 1890 to 1937 , MUSICAL QUARTERLY (2022)
• A New Performance for the New World: Carmen in America , Carmen Abroad (2020)
• Carmen Abroad: Bizet's Opera on the Global Stage , CARMEN ABROAD: BIZET'S OPERA ON THE GLOBAL STAGE (2020)
• Faust and the Power of Operatic Performance by African Americans , Journal of the American Musicological Society (2020)
• Special Issue on The Arts in the Black Press During the Age of Jim Crow , American Studies (2020)
• Blue Monday and New York Theatrical Aesthetics , (2019)
• Gershwin and the Past: Blue Monday and New York Theatrical Aesthetics , The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin (2019)
• Harry T. Burleigh: From the Spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance. , JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN MUSIC (2019)
• Historic American Sheet Music , JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY (2017)
• Justifiable Homicide: The Life and Death of Carmen in Late Nineteenth-Century America , Gender and the Representation of Evil (2017)

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