Ideological Aspects of Romanian Composition. Case Study: June 27, 1952 Meeting of the Romanian Creative Unions
Ideological Aspects of Romanian Composition. Case Study: June 27, 1952 Meeting of the Romanian Creative Unions
Author(s): Andreea MituSubject(s): Cultural history, Music, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Editura Universității Naționale de Muzică din București
Keywords: socialist realism; right-wing deviation; appeasement; music for the masses; self-criticism; formalism;
Summary/Abstract: This paper represents a case study of the June 27, 1952 meeting of the Romanian Creative Unions, with the aim of processing party documents on the right-wing deviation of the communist movement. The typescript of the meeting, found and saved by sculptor Dorin Lupea who was sent to work as an unskilled factory worker after graduating the university, is reproduced in full in the book Reconstituiri necesare [Necessary Reconstructions] published by Polirom under the care of Mihaela Cristea (ed.), with additional explanatory footnotes for the names of those who spoke at the meeting out of their own free will or under obligation. The text reveals to the reader the tremendous fear of Romanian intellectuals towards the doctrines of Stalinist ideology and the consequences of not respecting them, the indignities and criticisms they were willing to endure for fear of the terrible suffering both physical and mental that would await them in Communist prisons.
Journal: Musicology Today: Journal of the National University of Music Bucharest
- Issue Year: 12/2021
- Issue No: 48
- Page Range: 261-269
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English