by Katharina Biermann | Jun 24, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
The Trouble with the Methodology A few posts back, I made a few comments on the methodology. Hopefully, between that and the rather more lucid explanations provided by my colleagues, you, dear reader, have some coherent notion of what our project...
by Katharina Biermann | Jun 19, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
What exactly delineates Parisians from their immigrant counterparts? Long ago, as I started looking into the spread of immigrant population within the city limits of Paris (say, two, maybe three weeks ago?), I knew that I would encounter certain difficulties....
by Breanna Olson | Jun 19, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
As we’ve been researching these past few weeks, I have made it a personal goal to try and find music in untraditional spaces in Paris. This quest began for me in the catacombs. I had always thought of these tunnels as irksome dungeons under the streets of Paris...
by Breanna Olson | Jun 18, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
You might be asking yourself, “Who even is Nicholas Obuhov?” I know that’s what I first asked myself when I came across him in a general music chronology of 1924. The description indicated that he finished his score for “Le Livre de Vie”...
by Philip Claussen | Jun 18, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015, Philip Claussen
The impact of art is necessarily limited by the audience that can witness it. That’s why it’s so important to examine what transportation was availableto whom in Paris; of course train was the predominant formof long-distance land travel at the time, and...
by Katharina Biermann | Jun 18, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Newly Familiar Faces As I comb through the digitized leaves of various newspaper archives, complimentary of the French Bibliothèque Nationale, there are certain elusive figures who reappear with striking frequencies. One of these is a gentleman by the name of Feodor...
