by hex | Dec 2, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Nationalism is a major theme that stands out from all of my papers written for this class. My first paper on French pianist and pedagogue Marguerite Long addresses gender issue primarily, as Long experienced discrimination and obstacles during her promotion in Paris...
by hex | Nov 9, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Both readings by Dorf on Princesse Edmond de Polignac and Satie’s Socrate and Moore on Poulenc provide very interesting hypotheses and insights on sexuality in music. While I think that Moore clearly gives a more successful argument on his case, his topic of...
by hex | Oct 26, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
As we came across it many times in class readings, my research subject Société Nationale de Musique seemed to be easy to approach. However, when I tried to look at the music society in the 20s exclusively, things started to get confusing. Société Nationale de Musique...
by hex | Oct 14, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Reading and studying about Negrophilia keep reminding me about the idea of Orientalism and that to what extent Parisian’s Negrophilia bears similarities to Orientalism, another aesthetic wave of appreciating the Other happened some decades ago before 1920s. An...
by hex | Sep 28, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
I have known French pianist Marguerite Long’s name for a long time. Her recordings on Debussy and Ravel, which are produced mainly from 1920s to 1950s, offer not only historical and authentic interpretation of French piano music in the first half of 20th...
