Socialist Music

Just wondering about Molchat Doma's politics.

Or are they one of those "I disagreed with certain aspects of the CCCP but agreed with the goal" type-of people in the Eastern bloc?

Soothing.

Bluegrass music.

The artist also has a bunch more of absolute anti-capitalist and specifically anti-bri*ish bangers.

Check it out:

When reading through Aaron J. Leonard’s book, The Folk Singers and the Bureau, I was delighted to discover the single mention of a curious 1930s musical outfit: the Composers’ Collective of New York.

The collective consisted of a group of left-wing composers in the U.S. who, to varying degrees, wished to use their music to help the working class. “Members” of the collective, a term used loosely here, seeing as membership was not necessarily official, included famous and less-famous composers like Aaron Copland, Hans Eisler (who co-wrote Composing for the Films with Theodor Adorno), Earl Robinson, Elie Siegmeister, and Marc Blitzstein.

Grappling with what it meant to create “proletarian music” in the age of conflicting modernist and popular trends, they also debated how directly composers should be involved with politics.

The playlist can be accessed here.

Cheers, everyone.

DDR song - "Der heimlichle aufmarsch" (The Secret Deployment) by Erich Weinert and Wladimir Vogel

An obscure genre popular in Russia/Spain/UK and Poland around 2000s. Powerful and free of any decadence and snobbery. Libs would hate it - leave them listening to sonic-fast-food smooth jazz and pretending that they have sophisticated music taste.