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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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