MUSC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Marcus Garvey, Haile Selassie, Rastafari
Document Summary
Music and politics (government control: unity, straightforward message, soviet union under stalin (1928-1953) > contemporary european music was termed bourgeois and atonal formalist and banned. > a soviet artist"s practical creative reply to just criticism. : controlling meaning behind music, ex. > yenan forum on literature and arts (1942) > the artist should develop the right attitude (socialist perspective in their work) > art must be for the working masses. > pre-revolutionary art (ie. romantic) should be encouraged as modernism does not appeal to the masses. > art must have both aesthetic and political value. > quotations of chairman mao set to music sailing the seas depends on the helmsman . Music and politics (people: unity, protest, hidden transcript for political message, raising awareness, the people have a relationship with power structures, supportive or antagonistic and resistant, reggae- rastafarianism. > universal negro improvement association: racial pride, back to africa . > prince ras tafari makonnen-emperor of ethiopia (1930)
