It’s the Modern World, the End of Times, the Decline of the West, the Revolt of the Masses. It’s the 1920’s. It’s going to be Very Silly.
Great illustrated article about the entertainment industry, sensationalist media and censorship in the 1920’s:
http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/Vanities/
Featuring: Ziegfeld Follies, chorus girls, Nita Naldi, bathing beauties, Louise Brooks, “Anything Goes”, Buster Keaton, Tarzan and the Sheik, cocaine, murder, Woodbury’s soap, American Intelligence vs. Anglo-Saxon Civilization.
See also: The E Pluribus Unum Project
Here’s a nice illustration to the previous post about extremist receptions of Josephine Baker in Finland, from Kurikka no 6 1933.
Hilja: - Woman, if you don’t get out of here while you still can, you’ll taste this!
Not completely unrelated to my upcoming thesis. One of my challenges is to debunk the old lazy idea that “there was no racism in Finland before those damn foreigners came here”. The Finnish idea of nationhood is very much built upon an impossible ideal of purity, as well as a sense of constant threat towards [...]
Madison Grant (1865-1937) left an interesting legacy. He wanted to preserve the North American wilderness and worked hard to save many animal and plant species (including the great redwood) from extinction. He founded many conservation organizations and helped to create national parks around the United States. He was an active member of the American Bison [...]
One poem annoys me terribly, although I have almost grown up with it - its quotes are so familiar to me. The other poem makes me sad and heart-achingly warm. Both were written by men in the early 20th century, living on two different continents, dealing with oppression, dreaming of freedom. Why can I feel [...]