Sidney Finkelstein

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Sidney Finkelstein was an American Marxist literary and music critic known for his analyses of culture and the arts from a leftist perspective.

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instanceOf Marxist critic
human
literary critic
music critic
analyzed relationship between art and society
social function of music
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
criticized Marshall McLuhan’s media theories
dateOfBirth 1909-09-04
dateOfDeath 1974-01-14
educatedAt City College of New York
ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
fieldOfWork cultural criticism
literary criticism
music criticism
genre non-fiction
hasGender male
ideology Marxism
influencedBy Friedrich Engels
Karl Marx
Soviet Marxist aesthetics
Vladimir Lenin
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Communist Party USA
movement Marxism
notableFor Marxist analyses of culture and the arts
notableWork Art and Society
Composer and Nation
How Music Expresses Ideas
Jazz: A People’s Music
Sense and Nonsense of McLuhan
occupation literary critic
music critic
perspective historical materialism
placeOfBirth New York City
placeOfDeath New York City
politicalAlignment left-wing
viewedAs representative of American Marxist cultural criticism
wroteAbout aesthetics
classical music
jazz
mass culture
media theory
popular music

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Finkelstein hasNotableBearer Sidney Finkelstein