The Need for the Avant-garde

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DOI 10.34690/467

Author Elena Wehrmeyer

Affiliation Independent researcher

Email linde-und-sieg@mail.de

ORCID

0009-0006-8817-5754

Abstract

The readers are offered the conclusion of the book “New Horizons of the First Russian Musical Avant-garde,” which is being prepared for publication by the publishing house “Garage” in 2025. The conclusion does not repeat what was said in the previous chapters of the book, it touches on issues that go beyond the time frame of the subject, limited to the first third of the 20th century: about the influence of the avant-garde on the creative processes of contemporary creativity, about its relationship with the mentality of postmodernism, about the possibility (or impossibility) of its revival. Some aspects of Western mythology regarding Russian art at the beginning of the last century, and the stereotypes that follow from it, are also considered. The author attempts to reconsider the significance of the political aspect in Russian music of the 1920s and 1930s, which now, at the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, seems exaggerated. As events recede into the past, it becomes obvious that there was no impassable boundary between the 1920s and 1930s. The new style did not exclude the achievements of the previous one—on the contrary, it assimilated them.

For citation

Wehrmeyer, Е. “The need for the avant-garde.” Muzykal’naya akademiya [Music Academy], no. 2, 2025, pp. 156–163 , doi:10.34690/467. (In Russ.)

Acknowledgments

I am sincerely grateful to Marina Nest’eva, who not only read the book manuscript at the preparation stage, shared her impressions, made a number of valuable comments, but also convinced me of the need to publish one of its fragments in the journal.

Published 06.01.2025

Approved 20.02.2025

Submitted 27.06.2025

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