Jazz

[Justin Schwartz]

Who denies this? In fact, the theoretical point was masde with great 
richness and complexity by Gramsci; Lukacs was a literary critic; Marx 
himself,w hile not making a theoretical broughaha about it, wove literaure 
(in particular) in the frabric of hsi writing (see S. Prawer's wonderful 
Karl Marx and World Literature); the CPUSA, despite its theoretical 
primativeness, made "cultural hegemony" a major point of the pop front: the 
New Masses, proletarian literature; the folk music movement, the Hollywood 
screenwriters. Alan Wald has a study of thsi--has it been publsihed? I mean 
in an accessible, non-journalsitic form. Ina ddition, there is his work on 
the New York Intellectuals, about the anti-Stalinist left, who were critics 
and writers, one and all. --jks


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>At 05:45 PM 1/19/01 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>kelley wrote:
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>>>i however would like someone to make that case that music and the arts do 
>>>matter to left politics
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>>As a prefiguration of utopia, maybe?
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>>Doug
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>that's the standard answer, but pretty dang abstract!
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>velvet elvis, kell
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