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DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Kira Thurman investigates the rise of Black Euro
 peans in popular music since WWII. After the collapse of European empires\,
  European popular music industries turned to the musical labor of former co
 lonial subjects to reinvent themselves in an increasingly global and Englis
 h-speaking marketplace. Interpreting many Black European pop stars such as 
 Boney M or Milli Vanilli as Black Americans\, however\, transatlantic liste
 ners often failed to recognize the musicians performing in front of them as
  belonging to European history. How\, then\, do we account for both the ove
 rwhelming presence—and discursive absence—of Black Europeans in modern hist
 ory? This talk seeks to illuminate how musical producers\, performers\, and
  their audiences sought to make sense of—and occasionally reject—the catego
 ry of ‘Black Europe’ in the wake of a newly emerging post-imperial Western 
 Europe.\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nKira Thurman is a highly-sought-after and a
 ward-winning historian and musicologist. A classically-trained pianist who 
 grew up in Vienna\, Austria\, Thurman earned her PhD in history from the Un
 iversity of Rochester with a minor field in musicology from the Eastman Sch
 ool of Music. Her research\, which has appeared in German Studies Review\, 
 the American Historical Review\, Journal of the American Musicological Soci
 ety (JAMS)\, Opera Quarterly\, and Journal of World History\, focuses on tw
 o topics that occasionally converge: the relationship between music and nat
 ional identity\, and Central Europe's historical and contemporary relations
 hip with the Black diaspora.\n\nHost\n\nThe Institute for European Studies\
 , part of the Einaudi Center for International Studies
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LOCATION:A. D. White House\, Guerlac Room
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SUMMARY:Pop after Empire: Disco\, Decolonization\, and the Re-Making of Eur
 ope's Pop Music Industry
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URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/pop-after-empire-disco-decolonization-
 and-the-re-making-of-europes-pop-music-industry
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