Musicology Annotation << Back At the Beginning of the Marxist Musicology: Sociology of Music in the 1920s as a Methodological Project T.V. Bukina In the history of the home musicology the first post-revolutionary decade became a time of an active development of the sociological direction which for the first time offered a conceptual comprehension of music as a system of social and cultural practices. In this paper sociology of music is considered as one of bright inspirations of the early Soviet culture (mainly, on the material of an activity of the Department of History of music at the Russian Institute of History of Arts). Keywords: sociology of music in Russia, history of Russian musicology. E-mail: tbukina2002@mail.ru