The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936: Shaping a Nation's TastesThis 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 study traces and analyses the BBC’s 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 precious broadcast time was devoted to this repertory. Early personnel structures are reconstructed to investigate the responsibilities, attitudes and interests of those who influenced music broadcasting. Finally, broadcasts of Second Viennese School works are examined in detail. |
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Contents
The British music industry and the BBC between | 13 |
BBC personnel policies and programmes in the 1920s | 22 |
The programmes | 39 |
THE PITT YEARS 19221929 | 59 |
Scholess contemporary music reviews | 73 |
The music programmes take shape 19261927 | 80 |
The new focus on contemporary music | 86 |
The first wave of Second Viennese School broadcasts | 96 |
Contemporary music programming | 132 |
Boults initial seasons 19301931 19311932 | 187 |
Transition to the new régime 19321933 19331934 | 230 |
Policies and politics 19341935 19351936 | 281 |
Clarks legacy | 329 |
Appendices | 337 |
B BBC Concerts of Contemporary Music 19261936 | 366 |
Biographical summaries | 390 |
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The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes Jennifer Doctor No preview available - 2007 |
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