Musical and Social Structures: Marxist Interpretations of Popular Music in the 1960s and early 1970s in Hungary and the UK
Popular music studies as a field has been criticised from within for still predominantly favouring sociological approaches, as opposed to offering an analysis of the musical text that incorporates the social. What is missing from such debates, however, is that writings calling for a popular music ae...
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| author | Emília Barna Ádám Ignácz |
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| description | Popular music studies as a field has been criticised from within for still predominantly favouring sociological approaches, as opposed to offering an analysis of the musical text that incorporates the social. What is missing from such debates, however, is that writings calling for a popular music aesthetic are almost as old as the scholarly study of popular music. Andrew Chester’s “For a Rock Aesthetic”, published in New Left Review in 1970 is an example. Popular music studies, however, also produced works in Eastern Europe at around the same time, building on the results of a new Marxist musicology and sociology of music that drew on both musical and sociological aspects in music analysis. We compare British leftist and Marxist analyses of popular music phenomena of the 1960s and early 1970s with the work of Hungarian scholars such as János Maróthy looking at trends in popular music from a Marxist perspective. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-363279c36f3e492cb6ab2e4c467a40602022-12-22T01:23:42ZengInternational Association for the Study of Popular MusicIASPM Journal2079-38712018-06-018221710.5429/2079-3871(2018)v8i2.2enMusical and Social Structures: Marxist Interpretations of Popular Music in the 1960s and early 1970s in Hungary and the UKEmília Barna0Ádám Ignácz1Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsHungarian Academy of SciencesPopular music studies as a field has been criticised from within for still predominantly favouring sociological approaches, as opposed to offering an analysis of the musical text that incorporates the social. What is missing from such debates, however, is that writings calling for a popular music aesthetic are almost as old as the scholarly study of popular music. Andrew Chester’s “For a Rock Aesthetic”, published in New Left Review in 1970 is an example. Popular music studies, however, also produced works in Eastern Europe at around the same time, building on the results of a new Marxist musicology and sociology of music that drew on both musical and sociological aspects in music analysis. We compare British leftist and Marxist analyses of popular music phenomena of the 1960s and early 1970s with the work of Hungarian scholars such as János Maróthy looking at trends in popular music from a Marxist perspective.https://iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/article/download/902/pdfpopular music studiesmarxismeastern europenew leftmaróthy |
| spellingShingle | Emília Barna Ádám Ignácz Musical and Social Structures: Marxist Interpretations of Popular Music in the 1960s and early 1970s in Hungary and the UK IASPM Journal popular music studies marxism eastern europe new left maróthy |
| title | Musical and Social Structures: Marxist Interpretations of Popular Music in the 1960s and early 1970s in Hungary and the UK |
| title_full | Musical and Social Structures: Marxist Interpretations of Popular Music in the 1960s and early 1970s in Hungary and the UK |
| title_fullStr | Musical and Social Structures: Marxist Interpretations of Popular Music in the 1960s and early 1970s in Hungary and the UK |
| title_full_unstemmed | Musical and Social Structures: Marxist Interpretations of Popular Music in the 1960s and early 1970s in Hungary and the UK |
| title_short | Musical and Social Structures: Marxist Interpretations of Popular Music in the 1960s and early 1970s in Hungary and the UK |
| title_sort | musical and social structures marxist interpretations of popular music in the 1960s and early 1970s in hungary and the uk |
| topic | popular music studies marxism eastern europe new left maróthy |
| url | https://iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/article/download/902/pdf |
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