Sunday, March 10, 2019

3.6.5. IMMIGRANTS' OFFSPRING RECOGNIZED AT LAST


THE MUSÉE DE L'HISTOIRE DE L'IMMIGRATION, CREATED IN 2007, WAS NOT INAUGURATED UNTIL 2014 — AND THEN, DISCREETLY

Most Parisians turned away from immigrants' contributions  

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But about a decade after the founding, a classic opera inserted hiphop (in 2019)...


Then in 2024 and 2025...

  • A hip hop competition at the important Théâtre du Châtelet coincided with the Olympics:

  • Hip hop in musical theater attracted the attention of The New York Times


     The New York TimesOctober 9, 2024 

  • A character in one France's most famous classic plays, The Imaginary Invalid* performed a monologue in rap.
     *By Molière, the play was presented at the court of Louis XIV in 1674.



     The white actor implies that the Black invention has reached the mainstream.

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Context: announcements on streets of an ordinary neighborhood (the 13th)




There is nothing about the art of the "look" or about the haircuts, beards and mustaches that young whites adapt. 

But acceptance
of another vitality begins

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