Introduction: Ritual music and Communism

Harris, Rachel; Norton, Barley

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“…In the Soviet Union, folk music and folklore were important parts of the state program to highlight socialist national identities as symbolic markers of nationhood: "Folklore in the Soviet Union has been used consciously for propagating the cultural construction and political education of the masses for one goal -the realization of socialism and communism" (Oinas 1975). Backed up by the propaganda project launched by Lenin, traditional music was appropriated, reworked, and redeployed for propaganda purposes as "new wine in old bottles" (Harris and Norton 2002). This section reveals how music played a role in the process of folklorization and ethnicization of the socialist state.…”

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Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia

2021

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This book reexamines the origins of modern Mongolian nationalism, discussing nation building as sponsored by the socialist Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party and the Soviet Union and emphasizing in particular the role of the arts and the humanities. It considers the politics and society of the early revolutionary period and assesses the ways in which ideas about nationhood were constructed in a response to Soviet socialism. It goes on to analyze the consequences of socialist cultural and social transformations on pastoral, Kazakh, and other identities and outlines the implications of socialist nation building on post-socialist Mongolian national identity. Overall, Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia highlights how Mongolia's population of widely scattered seminomadic pastoralists posed challenges for socialist administrators attempting to create a homogenous mass nation of individual citizens who share a set of cultural beliefs, historical memories, collective symbols, and civic ideas; additionally, the book addresses the changes brought more recently by democratic governance.

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Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia

2021

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“…In exploring the cultural history of the PRC, quite a few scholars focus on the processes by which official ideology established its dominant position in the cultural realm and depict the CCP's cultural reforms in the "Seventeen Years" (1949)(1950)(1951)(1952)(1953)(1954)(1955)(1956)(1957)(1958)(1959)(1960)(1961)(1962)(1963)(1964)(1965)(1966) as a precursor to the Cultural Revolution (e.g., Jones, 1992;Chang, 1997: 76-126;Hung, 2005: 82-99;Hung, 2011;Liu, 2009: 387-406). This trend also exists in the scholarship on culture and politics in other socialist countries, which emphasizes political interference in cultural production while paying little attention to the agency of society (Taylor, 1998;Harris and Norton, 2002;Dobrenko, 2005;Ezrahi, 2012). In the past two decades, scholars have started to shed light on the cultural market in Maoist China and have reexamined the effectiveness of state control over the cultural realm.…”

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Market Success in a Planned Culture: Illegal Theatrical Performances in Post–Great Leap Forward China

2023

Modern China

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After 1949, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) sought to transform the production of popular culture from a market-based business into a section of the planned economy under the party-state. I term this new cultural system “planned culture,” as it followed the same practices as the planned economy system. But in practice, a strong planned culture was hard to maintain with scarce fiscal resources. It faced constant challenges from the cultural market in the Mao Zedong era, especially when the state temporarily retreated from the economic and cultural fields in the post–Great Leap Forward period. By depicting the different faces of unofficial culture, ranging from villages and suburban townships to big cities, this article argues that the state’s cultural reach in the Mao era was limited both by a lack of capacity and sometimes by preference, and that planned culture in the post–Great Leap Forward period was concentrated only in big cities, even after a decade of institutional expansion.

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Zen Buddhism and Music: Spiritual Shakuhachi Tours to Japan

Kiku

2014

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Introduction: Ritual music and Communism

Cited by 6 publications

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Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia

Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia

Market Success in a Planned Culture: Illegal Theatrical Performances in Post–Great Leap Forward China

Zen Buddhism and Music: Spiritual Shakuhachi Tours to Japan

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