Author: William Fecko

As a student who was initially skeptical about the subject of this course being confined within 10 years of music history in a single city, it’s quite an understatement to say that I was proven wrong in these worries. There has been so much to unpack from Music in Paris in the 1920s. from the neoclassicism of […]

I imagine most of my classmates and I will find it hard to write about anything other than the challenges of researching such a specific topic for our final paper. The challenges I’ve been facing come in many different forms, including, but not limited to: not being able to find many sources that are pertinent to […]

In my reading of the articles by Christopher Moore1 and Samuel Dorf2, I read one argument that was well thought out and tied together sources with ease, and I read one argument that was confusing, and didn’t seem to wholly follow one train of thought. Let’s begin with the former, Christopher Moore’s article on Francis […]

It is difficult for me, a White person who grew up in a liberal area of the United States in the early 2000’s, to see the Negrophilia craze of 1920s Paris as an act of love for the Black population. While I do think Parisians at this time had a love for Black art, especially […]

We all know and love Francis Poulenc. And as I’ve begun research on the well known Parisian, I’ve run more into the problem of finding too much information than not finding enough. This is because Poulenc was an active and well known composer from 1916 all the way to his death in 1963. He did plenty […]

I’ve been surprised with how many similarities are evident between the 1920s Paris we’ve been studying and the 2020s America today. Especially because of how little I understood European history in high school when I studied it, all the many kings and queens and empires, I found it hard to keep track of in my […]