The BBC and ultra-modern music, 1922-1936 : shaping a nation's tastes / Jennifer Doctor.

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TextLanguage: English Series: Music in the twentieth centuryPublication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.Description: xiii, 508 p. 26 cmISBN:

052166117X

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780.904 21 DOC

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Table of contents

Contents:

1. The British music industry and the BBC between the wars. 2. BBC personnel, policies and programmes in the 1920s -- 3. The foundations of music programming, 1922-1926. 4. The music programmes take shape, 1926-1927. 5. The first wave of Second Viennese School broadcasts, 1927-1928. 6. Refining the music programmes, 1928-1929. 7. Pitt's final season, 1929-1930 -- 7. Pitt's final season, 1929-1930 -- 8. Boult's initial seasons, 1930-1931, 1931-1932. 9. Transition to the new regime, 1932-1933, 1933-1934. 10. Policies and politics, 1934-1935, 1935-1936. 11. Clark's legacy.

Summary: This book examines the BBC's 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 Schoenberg's 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 reception study traces and analyses the BBC's attempts to manipulate critical and public responses to this repertory.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
General Books	CUTN Central Library Arts & Sports	Non-fiction	780.904 DOC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		34463

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book examines the BBC's 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 Schoenberg's 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 reception study traces and analyses the BBC's attempts to manipulate critical and public responses to this repertory.

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