Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms By Kira Thurman. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021. Pp. 368. Hardcover $32.95. ISBN: 978-1501759840.

as the female sphere of domesticity” (246). I wondered, though, if and how telegraphy contributed to constructions of masculinity in communications. As Johnston notes, the history of telegraphy is “remarkably overlooked in the historiography of modern Germany” (2). This book goes a very long way to rectifying that lacuna. Hopefully, this book will receive the wide readership from historians of Germany, technology, and media that it deserves.