Association for Contemporary Music

Association for Contemporary Music (ACM) (, ASM - Assotsiatsiya Sovremennoy Muzyki) was an alternative organisation of the composers in Russia orientated to the music of avant guarde. Founded by Nikolai Roslavets in 1923, it ran concert series and published magazines propagandizing the modernist music of Mahler, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Krenek, Hindemith, etc. as well as the work of its members. Its representatives were Dmitri Shostakovich, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Vissarion Shebalin, Alexander Mosolov, Gavriil Popov, Vladimir Shcherbachev, and others. It existed until 1932, when it was banned by Stalin and other Communist Party leaders with the enthusiastic support of the RAPM (Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians).
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