Filozofija i drustvo 2012 Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages: 274-291
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1203274V
Full text ( 332 KB)
The interpretation of artistic practices in Gramsci’s discourse: Towards the Gramscian analysis of music of modern and postmodern times
Vesić Ivana (Muzikološki institut SANU, Beograd)
Antonio Gramsci dedicated a lot of his attention in his writings to the
analysis of the cultural practices and their function in the socio-historical
processes. An important segment of his work included the analysis of art and
literature of modern times which was indirectly incorporated into the
discussion of the problem of usefulness of historical materialism as a
philosophical and social practice, social power and its cultural and
historical appearances, cultural and political emancipation of subaltern
classes etc. Mostly focusing on the explication of socio-cultural, political
and historical dimensions of Italian literature of Renaissance and the modern
period, Gramsci elaborated a sketch of his own version of Marxist aesthetic
proposing specific interpretations of the problem of social function of
artistic practices, the nature of artistic action and artwork and the
consumption of artistic artifacts. In this paper we will discuss Gramsci’s
thought on art in the context of his comprehensive theoretical, philosophical
and historical research aiming at elaborating a Gramscian model of analysis
of music practices of modern and postmodern times. One of our results should
be the examination of the possibilities of the analysis of music based on
Gramsci’s theory as well as the critical review of the application of its
main concepts in the existing body of research on music.
Keywords: Gramsci, philosophy of praxis, art, sociology of art, sociology of music
Projekat
Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177004: Identiteti srpske muzike od
lokalnih do globalnih okvira: tradicije, promene, izazovi