Monday, September 10, 2012

Jazz and josephine baker

Today was fascinating in class.
Jazz was a music movement starting in the black community that was faster paced and more fitting for the free speak easy era of american history.
When i think of jazz i mostly just think of this cartoon ;

http://youtu.be/akAEIW3rmvQ

but speak easies are good old fashioned American parties, and i'm very interested in the fringe value folk of any time.
I really was hoping for more exploration into burlesque and Moulin rouge clips. The make up and costumes are so imaginative and the art so beautiful i could watch it all day.
clips that popped into my mind for burlesque:
http://youtu.be/jqay9-U0vMQ
mr.brightside by the killers
and
Moulin Rouge
http://youtu.be/msFLf9x7s6M

Also, i love the flapper girl, i love F.Scott Fitzgeralds image of the flapper girl from the great gatsby, and i think that the recklessness of that image is ideal in every woman and should be relevant in every era.

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