{"id":873,"date":"2020-05-12T09:09:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/?p=873"},"modified":"2020-05-12T09:09:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:09:48","slug":"the-end-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/2020\/05\/12\/the-end-as-we-know-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The End As We Know It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we&#8217;ve made it to the end of Music 345: Paris in the 1920s and I can confidently say I know more about the subject than I did going in. From the very first day I attended, the conversation began with an idea of nationalism: us vs. them, or in this case, France versus Germany. This idea of nationalism raises questions like, &#8216;<em>what makes French music French<\/em>?&#8217;, or, &#8216;<em>what makes French music better?&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Upon reflection, it is these sorts of questions that were raised the most in my papers, whether it be proving Wanda Landowska&#8217;s identity as French despite her being a native of Poland, deciding which Parisian cathedral could best represent France to the world, or why Louis Vierne&#8217;s <em>Symphonie No. 4\u00a0<\/em>was a direct response to the affect of World War I on the country. Additionally, the idea of taking up a culture and making it your own (like the French did with Jazz) I feel ties directly in to nationalism and was much more prevalent than I would have expected before this course.<\/p>\n<p>While it was not the most prominent, the theme that emerged most powerfully for me was the week or two spent on gender and sexuality. It was not a perspective I was familiar with before the course, but found myself fascinated by the societal then-and-now comparisons. It lead me to a place of independent research and is a conversation I&#8217;d like to continue past this course.<\/p>\n<p>The course readings and in-class conversations have given me more insight from scholars and my peers that I never would have had access to apart from this course and I&#8217;m grateful for their knowledge. While I learned a fair bit from the readings, it has been the in-class discussions with more accessible language that has shaped how I view the people, pieces, institutions, and events of Paris in the 1920s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we&#8217;ve made it to the end of Music 345: Paris in the 1920s and I can confidently say I know more about the subject than I did going in. From the very first day I attended, the conversation began with an idea of nationalism: us vs. them, or in this case, France versus Germany. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","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\/873","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\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}