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Conference | "Art and the Americanization of France"
December 9-10, 2022 | 211 Dickinson Hall
Registration is required to attend this conference. Register here.
Please note: This conference is only being offered for in-person attendance.
Conference Schedule
Friday, December 9, 2022
1:30 - 2 PM | Welcome & Introduction
- Philip Nord, Princeton University | Welcome
- Anaïs Fléchet, Université Paris Saclay, Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines | “Re-reading Tyler Stovall Today”
2 – 3 PM | Panel 1 | “From the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth”
- Lorelle Semley, College of the Holy Cross | "Counterflow, Counterpose, and Counterpoint in Edmond Dédé’s Black Bordeaux"
- Barbara Kelly, University of Leeds | “France’s Learned Musical World and American Music between the World Wars”
3 – 3:30 PM | Break
3:30 - 5 PM | Panel 2 | The Interwar Decades I
- Effie Rentzou, Princeton University | “Les Réverbères, Neo-Dada, and Jazz in the 1930s”
- Pierre Fargeton, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne | “Adapting American Jazz to ‘Le Goût Français’: Ray Ventura’s Collégiens”
- Martin Guerpin, Université Paris Saclay, Évry-Val d’Essonne | “Questioning the Americanization of French Operetta during the Interwar Period”
Saturday, December 10, 2022
9 -10:30 AM | Panel 3 | The Interwar Decades II
- Rhae Lynn Barnes, Princeton University | “African-American Migration to Paris”
- Jennifer Boittin, Penn State University | “The Tense Joining of Jazz and Anticolonialism in Interwar France: From Josephine Baker to Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté”
- Philippe Gumplowicz, Université Paris Saclay, Évry-Val d’Essonne | “The Operetta Pas sur la bouche (1925, 1931, 2004): When the United States and France Exchanged a Kiss”
10:30 - 11 AM | Break
11AM - 12 PM | Panel 4 | From the USA to France, From France to the USA
- Catherine Rudent, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle | “Piaf Americanized?”
- Yannick Séité, Université de Tours | “From Mon homme to My Man and Back”
12 – 1:30 PM | Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 PM | The American Way of Life and the Counter-Culture
- Edward Berenson, New York University | “Levittowns in Postwar France”
- Sébastien Carney, Université de Bretagne Occidentale | “The Revival of Breton Music in the Sixties: A Local Take on American Counter-Culture”
2:30 – 2:45 PM | Break
2:45 - 4:15 PM | Hip Hop and Musical Americanization
- Timothée Valentin, Penn State University | “The Many Americas of French Hip Hop (1991-2018)”
- Mathieu Guillien, Université Paris Saclay, Évry-Val d’Essonne | “Transatlantic Express : How Electronic Dance Music Found Its Way Back to the US”
- Karim Hammou, Conseil National de Recherche Scientifique | “The Possibilities of Rap in France (1982-1992): A Musical African-Americanization?”
4:15 – 4:30 PM | Break
4:30 - 5:30 PM | Concluding Roundtable | “African-Americanization through the Arts?”
- Anaïs Fléchet, Université Paris Saclay
- Martin Guerpin, Université Paris Saclay
- Philippe Gumplowicz, Université Paris Saclay
- Trica Keaton, Dartmouth College
- Philip Nord, Princeton University
5:30 PM | Conference Concludes
Co-Sponsored by:
Center for Collaborative History | Department of African American Studies | Department of Music | Humanities Council | University Center for Human Values | Maison des Sciences de l’Homme | Université Paris-Saclay