Marxists "should" be interested in mass "phenonomena", mass culture, mass consciousness of many forms. Adorno may have been "wrong" about popular music and culture (smile), but he wasn't "wrong" to "investigate" popular music and culture vis-a-vis working class mass consciousness. That was not a project irrelevant to Marxism.
Socialist realist aesthetics concerns itself with working class highlife, play, fun, life _outside_ of work, because in reality workers have life outside of work. Work hard, play hard. See Marxist Thaxis discussions from circa 1998 -2000 on need for Marxists to learn about working class partying, music, arts ,recreation, relaxation. See Angela Davis book on women blues singers, and the African American music tradition as blues tradition. See discussion of relationship between modern popular music and this blues tradition. See discussions of "relevance" of this and relationships between women and men , as well as Black culture and Black/White relations ( on Marxism - Thaxis) See relationship between Communists of the 30's and 40's and jazz musicians such as Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker. Consider concerns of Sidney Finkelstein on these issues Sidney Finkelstein Birth/Death: July 4, 1909 — January 14, 1974. Sidney Finkelstein was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 4, 1909, studied at City College in New York, and did graduate work at Columbia University and New York University. In the 1930s he was a book reviewer for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and worked for the United States Postal Service. In the 1940s he joined the music staff of the Herald Tribune and was also a music reviewer for New Masses, Masses, and Mainstream. Between 1951 and 1973 he worked for Vanguard Records, specializing in jazz and classical recordings. As an author he was most noted for a number of books that brought a socialist realist perspective to the arts, partricularly Jazz, a People's Music, in 1948. Finkelstein died in Brooklyn on January 14, 1974. 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Jigsaw's business directory provides ... www.jigsaw.com/scid1052451/sidney_finkelstein.xhtml - Cached - Similar - Sidney Finkelstein - Music - Compare Prices, Reviews and Buy at ...Sidney Finkelstein - 2 results like the Jazz, a People's Music, Composer and Nation: The Folk Heritage in Music Sidney Finkelstein - Music. www.nextag.com/Music--zzSidney+Finkelsteinz220026zB6z5---html - Cached - Similar - Jazz: A People's Music. by Sidney Finkelstein : riverrun bookshop :Jazz: A People's Music. by Finkelstein, Sidney. Publisher Information: Citadel 1948. 278 pp. Edition: First. Binding: Hardbound ... www.riverrunbookshop.com/cgi-bin/rrbooks/4837.html - Cached - Similar - Music and ideology in Cold War Europe - Google Books Resultby Mark Carroll - 2003 - Music - 245 pages ... who had been lionised by the Left for his 'proletarian music', was criticised ... The critique was written by the New York Marxist Sidney Finkelstein, ... books.google.com/books?isbn=0521820723... - Sidney Finkelstein (Open Library)How music expresses ideas. by Sidney Finkelstein. (International Publishers, 1970). Art and society. by Sidney Finkelstein. (International Publishers, 1947) ... openlibrary.org/a/OL4374214A - Cached - Similar - Also, it is not the Marxist position on philosophy and art to ignore bourgeois philosophies and arts, but to consider especially progressive bourgeois and petit bourgeois thinkers and artists as capable of giving great insight on mass thinking . The textbook example on this is Marx liked to read Flaubert or some other French novelist who was a reactionary politically, because even reactionary artists can have useful insights for the cause of the working class, and otherwise in terms of understanding humanity and society. And always remember: The Soviet Union is your friend. On 7/17/09, c b <cb31...@gmail.com> wrote: > Listen up better. In brief, Michael Jackson who had the "ears" of > millions sought to unite Black and White. Any _Marxist_ in the United > States who is not concerned about this issue is not a Marxist. Are you > a "Marxist" or what ? > > Pay attention and respond to that. > > On 7/16/09, Karl Dallas <karldal...@f2s.com> wrote: > > And the relevance of this stuff about aa deluded young pop star and a > > 19th Century horror author to the subject of this list (which, I seem > > to recall, once was Marxism) would be what, exactly? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Marxism-Thaxis mailing list > > Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu > > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis > > > _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
