by Carolyn Nuelle | May 20, 2017
Harlem, Paris, and Beyond This map explores the travels of Sidney Bechet, a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist, and Josephine Baker, a singer and music-hall star, during the 1920s. Both of these individuals were American performers who gained success during the Harlem...
by Stella Li | May 19, 2017
Abstract Studying the reception of foreign music has always been an attractive task, especially one focusing on the turmoil age of early 20th century Europe. Musicologists have long been doing reception studies of the Second Viennese School, yet few have specifically...
by Katharina Biermann | May 16, 2017
Mapping Slave Songs of the United States Introduction Slave songs – spirituals, Old Plantation songs, songs of the contraband – form an important if often difficult to quantify or categorize phenomenon of American music history. Around the time of the...
