Paris in the Jazz Age: Music, Poetry, Painting
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Stanford Continuing Studies
This course will examine the extraordinary, myriad ways in which French and American artists influenced each other during the 1920s—in music, in literature, in painting. The aftermath of the First World War marks a pivotal time in which Europeans experienced the arrival of American jazz and pop culture. We will study this meeting of French culture and American popular music. Figures such as Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, and, later, Miles Davis, have played important roles in the development of French cultural life. At the same time, many French intellectuals have written about jazz with great insight. We will look closely at Le Tumulte Noir, which overtook 1920s Parisian culture, and the nativist French response to it. We will study both the music produced in Paris during the Jazz Age and the response to jazz by poets, painters, filmmakers, and novelists. Among the topics we’ll consider: the possibility of a "European jazz," the role of the Black American jazz musician in the imagination of France's African colonies, and the role of cinema and recorded sound in the transformation of French culture. Works by such writers as Sartre, Cocteau, Hemingway, and Boris Vian will be studied, along with music by Armstrong, Django Reinhardt, and Coleman Hawkins and artwork by Mondrian, Picasso, and Paul Colin.
Art & Music
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June 20, 2022
2022-06-20
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Live
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$
360
