ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2024-2025
Visiting Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies, University of Pittsburgh
2023-2024
Lecturer of Music, University of California Santa Cruz
EDUCATION
2022
University of California Santa Cruz
PhD, Cultural Musicology
Dissertation: Myth, Memory, & the Historiography of Black Jazz Musicians in the Third Reich
2017
University of California Santa Cruz
MA, Musicology
2014
San Francisco Art Institute
MA, History and Theory of Contemporary Art
MFA, Studio Art – Photography & New Genres
PUBLICATIONS
2024
“Of No Jazz Interest”: Joséphine Baker & the Politics of Jazz Genre in Occupied Paris,” Journal of Jazz Studies, Fall/Winter 2024. (Accepted)
“The Historiography of Myths & the Racial Imagination: re-contextualizing Joséphine Baker in the Jim Crow South and the Third Reich,” Jazzforschung / Jazz Research. (In Press)
2023
“Die Theorie der Spuren: Restoring Black Narratives in the Histories of Jazz,” Jazz Research News Ausgabe/Issue 59 (2023): 2705-2733.
2022
“Archival Silence in the Collections of Dietrich Schulz-Köhn,” Jazz & Culture 5, no 1. (Spring/Summer 2022): 20-51.
2021
Book Review, The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre & Vocality in African American Music by Nina Eidsheim, for Notes: the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 78, no 2, (December 2021): 218-220.
2017
“Can New Music Actually Do Social Activism?” Review for the Center for New Music, San Francisco. http://centerfornewmusic.com/can-new-music-actually-do-social-activism/
2016
“Generalized Trauma and the Responsibilities of the Artistic Monument,” Ethnomusicology Review, special issue, “After Pulse.” 10 November 2016. https://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/special-issue-pulse-nightclub-dralle
Kira Dralle 