BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936 Shaping a Nation's Tastes

Name: BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936 Shaping a Nation's Tastes
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ISBN: 9780521661171

ISBN-10: 052166117X

ISBN-13: 9780521661171

Edition: 1999

Authors: Jennifer Doctor, Arnold Whittall

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This book examines the BBCs campaign to raise cultural awareness of British mass audiences in the early days of radio. As a specific case, it focuses on policies and plans behind transmissions of music by composers associated with Arnold Schoenbergs circle between 1922, when the BBC was founded, and spring 1936, when Edward Clark, a former Schoenberg pupil and central figure in BBC music, resigned from the Corporation. This study traces and analyses the BBCs attempts to manipulate critical and public responses to this repertory. The book investigates three interrelated aspects of early BBC history. Policy decisions relating to contemporary music transmissions are examined to determine why…

Book details

List price: $140.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/27/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 524
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.61" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 2.266
Language: English



List of tables


Acknowledgements


List of abbreviations


Introduction



The Emergence of BBC Music Programmes



The British music industry and the BBC between the wars



BBC personnel, policies and programmes in the 1920s



The Pitt Years, 1922-1929



The foundations of music programming, 1922-1926



The music programmes take shape, 1926-1927



The first wave of Second Viennese School broadcasts, 1927-1928



Refining the music programmes, 1928-1929



Pitt's final season, 1929-1930



The Early Boult Years, 1930-1936



Boult's initial seasons, 1930-1931, 1931-1932



Transition to the new rTgime, 1932-1933, 1933-1934



Policies and politics, 1934-1935, 1935-1936



Clark's legacy


Appendices


Notes


Selected bibliography


Index