{"id":513,"date":"2020-03-10T11:22:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T16:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/?p=513"},"modified":"2020-03-10T11:23:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T16:23:23","slug":"necrophilia-in-paris-love-of-fear-of-black-performers-in-the-1920s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/2020\/03\/10\/necrophilia-in-paris-love-of-fear-of-black-performers-in-the-1920s\/","title":{"rendered":"Negrophilia in Paris: love of fear of black performers in the 1920s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Based on the articles of Matthew Jordan, Andr\u00e9 Levinson, Henry Louis Gates and Karen C.C. Dalton, I think it is hard to argue that the majority of parisians respected and loved African American artists as some of us may love some of our favorite artists today. Once I began reading about Negrophilia I came to realize that the name is not quite fitting, as parisian views of African Americans were far from love and respect of African American culture\u00a0 but more of an art seen as a threat to French society by some and by others, a fetishized desire for a new, unheard of and \u201cprimitive\u201d entertainment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">levinson and Bizet were candid in their opinions by saying it was an \u201cinnate gift not a conscious art, was an assault and virus on French taste and artistically inferior\u201d. These attitudes strengthened frances nationalistic identity by creating an imaginary heircahry based off of steotypical \u201cless developed\u201d nations that put French culture\u00a0 at the top. It also defends France\u2019s colonial history by claiming to be improving these other exotic cultures with their Frenchness. He also didn\u2019t see black music as giving to European music but instead that black dances were becoming less primitive and more complex as they received European help. Even if parisians did love what they were watching the sense of ownership, minstrelsy and forced self exoticism of the art leads us to believe that Parisians didn\u2019t love or respect African American artists, but instead loved what white parisians thought african american artists should be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-565\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1254\/2020\/03\/E4E7E470-4F1B-42DC-BED3-CB0BF9751DCF-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1254\/2020\/03\/E4E7E470-4F1B-42DC-BED3-CB0BF9751DCF-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1254\/2020\/03\/E4E7E470-4F1B-42DC-BED3-CB0BF9751DCF-113x150.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1254\/2020\/03\/E4E7E470-4F1B-42DC-BED3-CB0BF9751DCF.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the articles of Matthew Jordan, Andr\u00e9 Levinson, Henry Louis Gates and Karen C.C. Dalton, I think it is hard to argue that the majority of parisians respected and loved African American artists as some of us may love some of our favorite artists today. Once I began reading about Negrophilia I came to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3598,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}