by devries | Oct 14, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
There are almost as many cultural interpretations of negrophilia in the 1920s as there pieces of information available about Josephine Baker and performances of La Revue Nègre in particular. There were some positive responses, a few fence-riders, and clearly very...
by pruim | Oct 14, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
The great responsibility of a historian is to ask questions to which there are no correct answers. Did the 1920s Parisians love, respect and celebrate African Americans artists? Or did their racist view ultimately meant that what they experienced was something...
by Alexandra Mauney | Oct 10, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Crucial to any discussion of a historical cultural phenomenon is an acute awareness of the myriad factors at play within the context in which the phenomenon occurred. While we may be shocked into a moment of rage upon our first read of such accounts of La Revue Negre...
by Breanna Olson | Jun 8, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Perhaps you’ve seen the iconic advertisement for Le Chat Noir in a French souvenir shop and thought, “that’s so French!” Maybe you’ve seen the infamous youtube star Henri the existentialist chat noir and thought, “that’s even more French!” Located in the bohemian...
