Communist Ideology and Academic Education. A Case Study: World Music History as a Subject in Romanian Universities, 1948-2014
Communist Ideology and Academic Education. A Case Study: World Music History as a Subject in Romanian Universities, 1948-2014
Author(s): Elena Maria ŞorbanSubject(s): Cultural history, Music, Social history, Higher Education , Sociology of Art, Sociology of Education
Published by: Muzikološki institut SANU
Keywords: communist and post-communist Romania; music history; course books;
Summary/Abstract: This paper presents music history as a university discipline during Communism and afer. Shaping the specifc historical context, marked by censorship, the study focuses on the main course books on the subject, from Bucharest, Cluj, and Iași, beginning with some Soviet authors and ending with the mature generation of today. Te main problems detected are ideological perversion, informational delay and isolation, as well as subjective individualism.
Journal: Muzikologija
- Issue Year: 2/2017
- Issue No: 23
- Page Range: 59-81
- Page Count: 23
- Language: English