Kristen Turner

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Mom of 3 grownups, musicologist, loves the archive. Author of The Operatic Kaleidoscope: Voice, Race, and the Ragtime Stage. Host of New Books in Music

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Our Common Life is a genre busting history of folk music told from the point of view of an observer-participant. A must listen for anyone who values the lives of folk musicians as much as their music.

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Part 3: Three chapters on the operatic vocal timbre’s use in producing, defining, and subverting ideas about gender, race, and ethnicity in scripted entertainment. The final chapter discusses ragging opera as one way to define American musical style.

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Part 2: Three chapters on opera as a sonic signifier and symbol for respectability in different contexts, and one chapter on how opera could be used to subvert and challenge ideas of respectability. My favorite chapter in the book is chapter 6 on plantation shows.

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That's my book! Want to learn a little more? 🧵 Part 1: Three chapters that explain why opera was important in popular entertainment, who sang it, what they sang, and what the critics thought about it.

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This is a familiar pattern that repeats itself every time Republicans get on this voter fraud kick. Another familiar pattern is Republicans who complain about voter fraud not living where their voter registration says they do.

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T minus 5 days before my book is officially released! It's about opera and popular entertainment at the turn of the twentieth century in the US seen through the lens of the period’s citizenship debates—increasing segregation, women’s suffrage, and immigration.

Book cover with five images of performers from the early twentieth century
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As the academic year kicks off, I want to highlight an important issue that many folks, including some of my colleagues, are not aware of: the new earnings test imposed by the U.S. Department of Education as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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interesting that there is no link here. hey chait could you provide a citation for this claim? “He has denied that any Democrat who believes in human rights could have any motive other than money for holding a position on Israel different from the one he prefers.”

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It is not a "grim choice" to support either a psychotic Republican or a mainstream center-left politician.

he Michigan Senate election has presented liberals with a grim choice. The Republican candidate, Mike Rogers, has pledged support for a corrupt, racist, authoritarian-minded administration. Rogers hasn’t made even the tiniest concession to Donald Trump critics. But supporting El-Sayed means accepting a strain of anti-Semitic politics that to date has had no place within the Democratic Party. What’s more, El-Sayed has already said that he intends to use his victory as a platform to reshape the party. Him winning could invite a future in which the United States has not just one party that is open to bigots but two. Although El-Sayed has never said anything nearly as inflammatory as the sorts of comments Piker makes routinely, his mixture of anti-Zionism and populism treats pro-Israel activism as a nefarious and all-pervasive force. He has denied that any Democrat who believes in human rights could have any motive other than money for holding a position on Israel different from the one he prefers. El-Sayed tends to depict nearly all opposition to his candidacy as financially driven, but when applied to Jewish political activity, this charge becomes even more conspiratorial.