[lbo-talk] Soviet Kitsch

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Tue Jun 10 07:27:02 PDT 2003


On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 02:49:32 -0400, Chris Doss <itschris13 at hotmail.com> wrote:


> Uh, is this supposed to exhaust all the artistic production that existed
> in the USSR?

Nah. Shostakovich was great, for example. http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol2no1/warsymphonies.html
> ... On January 26,Dzhugashvili himself, with other Party officials in
> tow, attended Lady Macbeth at the Bolshoi Theater. In the middle of the
> performance, the Leader and his henchmen walked out. Two days afterward,
> a Pravda editorial blasted Lady Macbeth, calling it "chaos in place of
> music"
Music under Soviet rule: Posts to DSCH-L (New Babylon II) ... For example, Katerina Clark, in her 1995 book Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution, introduces FEKS as "the contemporary masters of parody" in early ...

http://www.siue.edu/~aho/musov/dschl/nbab2.html Katerina Clark wrote, "The Soviet Novel: History as Ritual, " (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981)



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