3/4 Paris 1928 - A Tale of Three Cities
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Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale of Three Cities.
Paris 1928 - Episode 2/3
First broadcast: Aug 2014.
Dr James Fox tells the story of Paris in 1928. It was a city that attracted people dreaming of a better world after World War I. This was the year when the surrealists Magritte, Dali and Bunuel brought their bizarre new vision to the people, and when emigre writers and musicians such as Ernest Hemingway and George Gershwin came looking for inspiration.
Paris in 1928 was where black musicians and dancers like Josephine Baker found adulation, where Cole Porter took time off from partying to write Let's Do It, and where radical architect Le Corbusier planned a modernist utopia that involved pulling down much of Paris itself.
Shakespeare and Company wasn't in rue de la Bûcherie facing the river Seine in 1928, but in rue de lOdéon, where it had moved from rue Dupuytren in 1921. The shop on the Seine opened in 1951 under the name le mistral and took the name Shakespeare and Company on the first Sylvia Beach's death in 1962.
American African community are proud for their heritage and history. Not all of them share the opinion in the video that France was a better place for them. Europe was already equally and stupidly racist continent. Many things have changed since then...!!!!!
The jazz musicians of the age and even right through the 60s would disagree with you. Watch for instance the Miles Davis Documentary currently on Netflix for his story of how he hated going back to the states after being accepted for who he was regardless of colour during his Paris stays. I agree that there were racists everywhere but the main difference was the the fact that segregation was alive and well in the US for most of the 20th century.