by Stella Li | Dec 2, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Throughout this semester in “Paris in the 1920s”, we learned different pieces from the 1920s Paris, not only about what is in the music, but also what comes out of the music, using the five critical lenses: nation, race, gender, sexuality and social class....
by Stella Li | Oct 23, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
When we talking about nationalism and internationalism, we firstly think these two notions are somehow conflicting. Nationalism is almost always associated exclusiveness and rejection of otherness, while internationalism seemed to symbol a universal embracement of...
by Stella Li | Oct 14, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Negrophilia in Paris 1920s was a reflection of the ambivalent attitude of French people toward the invading black culture, between artistic affection and cultural resistance. As a result of such selective embracement of African and African American culture, I...
by Stella Li | Sep 28, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
A production of PBS award-winning bibliography series “American Masters”, “Aaron Copland: A Self-Portrait” (1986) 1 introduces a chronological panorama of Aaron Copland’s life as a great composer, conductor, teacher and human being. An...
by Stella Li | Sep 15, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
“Not a book about maps in the literal sense, HyperCities describes the humanist project of participating and listening that transforms mapping into an ethical undertaking – thick mapping.” Layering the process of mapping with the study of humanities,...