Throughout the course of this class the theme of identity has emerged as a common denominator. It is rather broad, but it encompasses all the different topics and lenses we have discovered from race to gender and sexuality, and to me most prominently, national identity. For a whole century France had close ties with Germany […]
Author: Amalie Kvam
For my blogpost this week I am revisiting a primary source I encountered when researching composer Arthur Honegger. I have previously written about how Honegger was always considered a German composer, due to his Swiss upbringing and partially Swiss music education. This being even though he spent most of his life in France amongst French […]
In Dorf’s article I find the evidence suggesting a change in Eric Satie’s style when composing Socrate a compelling starting point for a queer reading. I find Dorf’s narrative about Socrate being a more isolated case in Satie’s body of work, conceptualized in close collaboration with a “confirmed” lesbian patron, especially compelling. Dorf by doing […]
As for many other individuals of my generation 20th Century Fox’ Anastasia (1997) is a fond memory dazzled with nostalgic glitter. It is, if nothing else, an interesting attempt on 20th Century Fox’ part to capture the Disney-formula, with historical negligence, princesses, songs and all. There comes a time in every young girl’s or boy’s […]
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Step 1. “Francité”. Step 2. Profit?
As far as francité in music goes, it is both emotionally and economically driven, as well as highly subjective what gets included and excluded. My essay is about Arthur Honegger, a financially successful composer, at least by many accounts. One of my main sources is a book by Harry Halbreich creatively titled Arthur Honegger. Halbreich, […]
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Roots
Before you read the text, please, sit down, relax, press the link and enjoy some stock images and some music. What does it remind you of? Any names come to mind? Any particular styles, Nationalities even? To me the concept of Latin vs. German roots as the foundation of an “innate frenchness” as echoed by […]