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- Title
Mūzikas gaume, vieglās mūzikas cenzūra un skaņu plašu fabrikas Bellaccord-Electro darbība 20. gadsimta 30. gados.
- Authors
Rokpelnis, Alberts
- Abstract
Culture in Latvia in 1930ties was a mass culture that was strongly controlled by the authoritative regime. Society's musical taste was ideologically important and it could be manipulated using censorship. Relationship between "serious"" and "popular" music always has been difficult. Academics that represented classical music where influenced by national ideology and raised questions about developing society's musical taste. They set ethical standards for the popular music and hoped to control its eligibility. Academics wrote that people enjoyed catchy melodies that didn't ask for high level musical education. An important task for Latvian academic music was recruiting professional musicians for the popular music genre to create, for example, good quality dance music that was up to Latvian traditional standards. The results were achieved by partly limiting and translating the program of Radiofons. Second half of 1930ties, under the authoritative regime of Kārlis Ulmanis, was characterized by censorship that influenced also record production and import. Big impact on the progress of Latvian music recording and increase of popular music's publicity was left by Helmars Rudzītis who was the director of record studio Bellaccord- Electro which provided a place to record music in Latvia. By the end of 1930ties the censorship began to suppress also the content of musical records, limited production volume and interfered with export.
- Subjects
LATVIA; POPULAR culture; MUSIC censorship; CENSORSHIP; LATVIAN music; ANTICENSORSHIP activists
- Publication
History of Latvia (Early Modern & Modern Times), 2012, Vol 1/2, Issue 85/86, p112
- ISSN
1407-0022
- Publication type
Article