{"id":2442978,"date":"2019-04-15T15:39:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=822807"},"modified":"2019-04-15T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:39:08","slug":"aretha-franklin-posthumously-awarded-pulitzer-prize-special-citation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/aretha-franklin-posthumously-awarded-pulitzer-prize-special-citation\/","title":{"rendered":"Aretha Franklin Posthumously Awarded Pulitzer Prize Special Citation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aretha-pulitzer.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/aretha-franklin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_aretha-franklin\" data-tag=\"aretha-franklin\">Aretha Franklin<\/a> was posthumously awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/pulitzer-prize\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pulitzer-prize\" data-tag=\"pulitzer-prize\">Pulitzer Prize<\/a>\u2019s Special Citation, the prestigious journalism and the arts organization announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin was recognized \u201cfor her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades,\u201d the Pulitzer Prize board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/winners\/aretha-franklin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">added<\/a> of the honor.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin is one of less than a dozen musicians \u2013 and the first female artist \u2013 to receive the Pulitzers\u2019 Special Citation for the arts; previous winners include Rodgers &amp; Hammerstein, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan and, most recently in 2010, Hank Williams.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.752808988764\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArethaFranklin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@ArethaFranklin<\/a> and her family and friends. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pulitzer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#Pulitzer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/QueenOfSoul?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#QueenOfSoul<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Respect?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#Respect<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SRdwncE5UI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/SRdwncE5UI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Pulitzer Prizes (@PulitzerPrizes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PulitzerPrizes\/status\/1117869885944557569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">April 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This year\u2019s Pulitzer Prize for Music went to Ellen Reid\u2019s opera <em>p r i s m<\/em>, with James Romig\u2019s piano work <em>Still<\/em> and Andrew Norman\u2019s orchestral piece <em>Sustain<\/em> named as finalists. In 2018, Kendrick Lamar was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kendrick-lamars-pulitzer-win-is-worth-celebrating-but-theres-still-a-long-way-to-go-627923\/\">awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music<\/a> for his 2017 LP <em>Damn<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/aretha-franklin-pulitzer-prize-special-citation-822807\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aretha Franklin was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize\u2019s Special Citation, the prestigious journalism and the arts organization announced Monday. Franklin was recognized \u201cfor her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades,\u201d the Pulitzer Prize board added of the honor. Franklin is one of less than a dozen musicians \u2013 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 08:23:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}