Boris Asaf'ev and the Soviet Musicology - E-thesis
Boris Asaf'ev and the Soviet Musicology - E-thesis
Boris Asaf'ev and the Soviet Musicology - E-thesis
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Table 1. The terms that defines socialist realism trough negation<br />
POSITIVE TERM NEGATIVE TERM<br />
Socialist realism The Western capitalistic art<br />
– ”dekadent” art<br />
SOCIALISM – gives everyone equal CAPITALISM – enslaves <strong>the</strong> artists<br />
basis for creating <strong>and</strong> perceiving art<br />
positive realism<br />
for <strong>the</strong> service of capitalistic machine<br />
<strong>and</strong> makes it a monopoly of <strong>the</strong> ruling<br />
class.<br />
formalism = modernism, abstractionism,<br />
avant-gardism<br />
<strong>Soviet</strong> nationalism -> universalism<br />
expressionism<br />
Bourgeois nationalism -><br />
cosmopolitanism<br />
Critical Realism Bourgeois naturalism<br />
Classical tradition = Russian classical tradition classical tradition = elitism<br />
(The music of <strong>the</strong> Mighty Five)<br />
Normativism <strong>and</strong> ideology in art chaotic freedom in art = in capitalism<br />
= guarantees <strong>the</strong> true freedom <strong>the</strong> law of <strong>the</strong> dem<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> supply<br />
doesn’t guarantee <strong>the</strong> freedom of art<br />
folk music – ‘narod nost’ [peopleness or 'popular'] = popular culture = polluted by <strong>the</strong><br />
reflection in music of psychological <strong>and</strong> realistic-living capitalist culture<br />
character of people’s lives.<br />
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