Why did the USSR and the rest of the warsaw pact(idk about central europe, but in my country, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, banned all rock and metal as being "degenerate bourgeois and fascist music") ban rock and metal? How was it a bourgeois influence when the vast majority of rock and metal fans were bourgeois, and a lot rock music had major anti-imperialist or anti-capitalist themes(John Lennon and , as well as the majority of its listeners being working class?
What makes this hypocritical is that at the same time ballet and classical music was kept in high regard, when these arts are to this day just entertainment for decadent and pretentious nobles and the grande bourgeosie, as well as them being patrons of them.
Ban of Rock and Metal in the USSR
Luis Barnes
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Jace Cox
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Hudson Lewis
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David Price
The fans may not have been porkies, but the musicians were. Rock music is fascist. It was a CIA PSYOP.
Liberal hippie bullshit, lots of anti-communism mixed in ("You say you need a revolution…").
The USSR did fail to promote new proletarian music to an extent, but shitty boomer noises were not the answer.
This kind of music is socially organized (in orchestras, practice sessions, etc) and performed by everyone. In comparison, the kind of music that is distinctly stamped with the approval of the bourgeoisie is rock music that focuses on stardom and expropriates musical performance from the masses. Orchestral music was accessible to all in socialism. Would you complain also that the socialists preserved beautiful tzarist architecture and made it accessible to all instead of demolishing it and replacing it with bourgeois skyscrapers?
Ethan Nelson
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Carson White
It was a generation gap an culture war BS, not an ideological question.
t Silent Generation
Classical music requires unsessicary amounts of labor compared to rock. This is a good thing, not a bad thing.
No their is a of of smaller bands and shit.
Yes, a lot of traditional architecture is shit, and skyscrapers are not only cool, but allow for high density cities.
Christian Reyes
You have to be retarded to think this with maybe a few exceptions.
Oliver Carter
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Liam Lewis
>Rock music is fascist.
By that logic classical, baroque and ballet is reactionary.
Show me rock lyrics that promote faschism
If you ban an entire genre, you make it a forbidden fruit for the people to smuggle and discredit your regime. This is what happened.
For the amusement of nobles.
The same criticism could be leveled at soviet era estrada singers like kobzon.
Also classical music is pretentious as shit and pretentiousness is bourgeois.