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“Music for millions”. Janos Marothy and academic research on popular music in socialist Hungary
Author(s) -
Ádám Ignácz
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
muzikologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0976
pISSN - 1450-9814
DOI - 10.2298/muz1723117i
Subject(s) - popular music , jazz , musicology , musical , politics , marxist philosophy , music history , rock music , music , music education , realism , literature , aesthetics , social science , media studies , art , sociology , visual arts , political science , law
In this paper I demonstrate the changes in Janos Marothy?s aesthetic and political attitudes towards popular music. Being an internationally acknowledged Marxist musicologist, Marothy found employment in many important musical institutions, in the framework of which he not only had an overview of the events of Hungarian popular music, but with his presentations and articles, in the 1950s and early 1960s he also exerted a considerable influence on them. Using archival data and media coverage, I examine Marothy?s key texts which demanded a revision in the matter of ?socialist realism? and which announced a growing attention and tolerance towards the musical products of Western ?mass culture?: jazz and pop-rock. His work shows how popular music became a part of academic research in Socialist Hungary.

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