Jazz/CPUSA

[Justin Schwartz]

Oh, for heaven's sake, Charles. Have you read, e.g., Finkelstein's book on 
jazz, treating it as "folk music"? The CP had a mechanical view directly 
linking class to art ("proletarian literature"), treating art more less 
purely instrumentally, hostile to modernism, intolerant of ambiguity. Ask 
yourself why the Party couldn't keep Richard Wright. But it did see culture 
as an important field of struggle. --jks


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>the CPUSA, despite its theoretical
>primativeness, made "cultural hegemony" a major point of the pop front:
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>CB: What was primitive about CPUSA theory ?
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