The impact of Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson on European modernism and cultural life

约瑟芬·贝克和保罗·罗伯逊对欧洲现代主义和文化生活的影响

• 批准号: DP0664990
• 负责人: Prof James Donald
• 金额: $ 7.68万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2006-01-01 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0664990
• 关键词: impact; Josephine; Baker; Paul; Robeson

The story of how the Black American entertainers Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson became stars in Jazz-Age Europe is the stuff of legend. Lionised by artists and intellectuals and idolised by popular audiences, they embodied the spirit of the age. As an allegory for those times, their story reveals a secret history of cultural intermixing at the heart of European modernism. It also holds up a mirror to our times. By demonstrating the cosmopolitanism and ingenuity of popular culture, the research will simultaneously discomfort multicultural and anti-racist assumptions and deflate the myth of a pure or unchanging cultural identity.

美国黑人艺人约瑟芬·贝克和保罗·罗伯逊如何在爵士乐时代的欧洲成为明星的故事是一个传奇。 他们被艺术家和知识分子奉为偶像，受到大众的崇拜，体现了时代精神。 作为那个时代的寓言，他们的故事揭示了欧洲现代主义核心的文化混合的秘密历史。 它也是我们这个时代的一面镜子。 通过展示流行文化的世界主义和独创性，这项研究将同时令多元文化和反种族主义假设感到不安，并打破纯粹或不变的文化身份的神话。