PHILOSOPHERS, EPIGONES, AND AESTHETES. AT THE INTERFACE OF IDEOLOGICAL AND AESTHETIC STATEMENTS ON MUSIC PRODUCTION

This paper explores various (even contradictory) evaluations and perspectives on musical works that originated in a variety of cultural and geographical areas in the 20th century. It presents opposing views (coming from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, from different ideological positions, political groups or establishments, etc.). It analyses what Theodor W. Adorno’s negative dialectics, Grigori M. Schneerson’s aesthetic disorder, Władysłav Malinowski’s theologizing of socialist realism and Arthur C. Danto’s expression about abuse of beauty have in common. At the same time, it demonstrates how particular philosophical, aesthetic, and ideological conceptual frameworks affect music production and reception. The philosophical conceptual framework and contemporary theoretical ideologiszing views have a broader scope and document the mutual interactions of arts and ideology at both poles of the Euro-Atlantic culture axis in the 20th century.