Partipolitiska praktiker, positioneringar och profileringar i 1970-talets svenska musikfält

Abstract

Political party practices, positionings and profiles in Sweden’s 1970’s music movement The aim is to show how Swedish left-wing parties in the 1970’s used music and related to the “progressive music movement” which grew strong in the decade, gathering many young people around music and music production with a left-wing attitude. The study shows how Maoist-influenced parties SKP and KFML-r initially favoured songs for meetings and demonstrations, tried to handle the unplanned sympathies they gained in the music movement by promoting their own paroles for culture work, eventually landing in an anti-imperialist critique of the use of rock music and thus alienating themselves from the music movement. A conclusion made is the lack of understanding of the infrastructural changes of music in society (the normality of recorded music, the rise of the independent authentic artist role) that made the political parties reject potential collaborators and supporters.