Ideology and its impossible transformation into mass commercial art in the early decades of socialism Cover Image

Идеологията и невъзможната й трансформация в масово комерсиално изкуство при социализма
Ideology and its impossible transformation into mass commercial art in the early decades of socialism

The mass song in the period 1944-1954: a tragicomic narrative

Author(s): Angelina Petrova
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Political Sciences, Civil Society, Communication studies, Sociology, History of ideas, Local History / Microhistory, Oral history, Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Факултет по журналистика и масова комуникация, Софийски университет „Св. Кл. Охридски”
Keywords: totalitarian culture; cultural engineering; Union of Bulgarian Composers; mass song;socialist realism;

Summary/Abstract: Тhe decade of 1944-1954 marked a prominent rise of the mass-song, which became a major ideological genre. It is a genre-product that performs the ideological, state and public order of the Communist Party in tune with cultural engineering. It embodies the economy of socialist production of culture: provision with contractions at all levels, realization through sponsored state chambers, secured by contractions with state institutions in a hierarchical state order. The mass-song is created in the system of state socialized art of socialism designed by the civil engineering of socialism. Still, something prevents it from growing into commercial art - it hinders its ideological, adaptive, traumatic nature, offsetting anger and fears. Its disharmonious duality is the cause of its crisis after a decade of generously sponsored development. In the party papers officially published by the Union of Composers in 1954 and then (1956, 1958) instead of a succession of successes and conquests of a broad audience, in the mass-song, a collapse, poor performance, a crisis. In the 1970s, this led to its encapsulation.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 93-113
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Bulgarian