African American musical idioms ran rampant in Paris following the import of such ideas by American soldiers in the Great War. What started as music in niche social clubs for veterans who remained abroad soon grew in popularity, so much so that 1920s popular Parisian music is almost synonymic with jazz. The Parisian jazz scene […]
Author: Aidan Kocur
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So. Many. French. Newspapers.
Who would’ve thought that a class on music in Paris would require looking at so many French texts? /sarcasm/ For how much I enjoy singing it, boy do I not understand a lick of French (curse me for taking Latin in Highschool before deciding to learn another useless language [Norwegian] in college). When researching my […]
Louis Durey (1888-1979) was the eldest member of Les Six, and the quickest to abandon the collaborative activities of the group. I began my research using a variety of publicly available dictionaries and encyclopedias (including Wikipedia, Oxford Music, and Grove Music Online) which all lead me to the same source – Louis Durey: l’aîné des […]
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Following France’s embarrassing defeat during the Franco-Prussian and the subsequent formation of the German Empire, many French musicians sought to manufacture a unique French national identity by defining France’s national style. Championed at the time by composers such as Fauré, Saint-Saëns, and Franck, they opened the way for the innovations of Debussy and, later, Satie. […]