Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0664990

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0664990

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

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

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2006

End Date: 31-12-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $111,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Cinema Studies | Screen And Media Culture | Cultural Studies | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

The performing arts (incl. music, theatre and dance) |

Other Keywords

Cinema Studies | Cultural Studies | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies | Screen And Media Culture | The Media | The performing arts (incl. music, theatre and dance) | Understanding the Pasts of Other Societies

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