Author: Emmy Erickson

Phew… what a semester. It has surely been a whirlwind. There is so much that I have learned in this class, but one theme tended to permeate particularly two of my favorite writing assignments: gender. I thoroughly enjoyed writing my paper about Marcelle Meyer, a brilliant French pianist. The more and more I couldn’t find, […]

In my research of the last two papers, I have found it more difficult than not to find big ole’ articles or even single chapters about either the person or place I was researching. I felt like Shia LaBeouf in the movie Holes: digging and digging…searching and searching… …Feeling hopeless until I find a golden […]

At this point of my college career, I’ve noticed that scholarship is full of bold claims and ideas. From intentions to relationships to fetishization, scholars love the “hot goss.” Was Chopin’s music obviously feminine? Was Paul Simon politically insensitive in the creation of his album Graceland? Arguments have been addressed, and the claims have been […]

Negrophilia, according to avant-garde artists in Paris 1920s, was loosely defined as some vague type of love/fetishization of black culture and art. I would argue that this so-called “love” that was felt was not anything close to the definition that some of our 21st-century souls would define it. I mean, let’s be completely honest, this […]

  In my quest to learn more about the life of Marcelle Meyer who was a highly renowned French pianist, I immediately was slapped with some sticky setbacks (and yes, that was purposeful alliteration). It, frankly, came with no shock to see that there are essentially no girthy articles or scholarships written exclusively about Miss […]

The hot question lingers: What is French music in the early 20th century, and who specifically decides this? In exploring the literature written about this “artistic epoch”3 (yay, new vocabulary word for me (!), and yes I cited a source for one single word), it seemed as though the more music was made available and […]