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 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...