by Emma Haupt | Nov 30, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
At the beginning of this semester I had little idea of what was happening in Paris in the 1920s. I knew it is right after the first World War and it was the sweet spot before the second war started with a surge of nationalism happening all across Europe. I had some...
by Alexandra Mauney | Nov 27, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
The reason I elected to take this course was that I have always been fascinated by the environment of Paris during the early twentieth century. I have often said that if I had a time machine, one of my first stops (after visiting Jesus and John Calvin, respectively)...
by wayne | Nov 27, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
When I look back on this class, trying to figure out what exactly I have accomplished, I am always drawn back to one of the first assigned readings, Gumbrecht’s In 1926: Living at the Edge of Time. The book attempted to look at history as if through a...
by schenk | Nov 13, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Dorf’s and Moore’s readings of Satie’s Socrate and Poulenc’s Les Biches and Aubade as works influenced by a queer aesthetic do seem justified to me. The blatant de-sexualization of the text that Satie set (“Great care [is] taken to...
by Tim Apolloni | Nov 9, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
I think Moore makes his point fairly clear, that Poulenc used camp quite extensively in his works. His argument is well-thought out, could probably be more concise, but accurately depicts his point. What I had hoped he would comment on, and what I didn’t really...
