The BBC and ultra-modern music, 1922-1936 : shaping a nation's tastes
"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1999
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 508 pages ; 26 cm
9780521661171, 052166117X
40305579
List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The Emergence of BBC Music Programmes: 1. The British music industry and the BBC between the wars; 2. BBC personnel, policies and programmes in the 1920s; Part II. The Pitt Years, 1922–9: 3. The foundations of music programming, 1922–6; 4. The music programmes take shape, 1926–7; 5. The first wave of Second Viennese School broadcasts, 1927–8; 6. Refining the music programmes, 1928–9; 7. Pitt's final season, 1929–30; Part III. The Early Boult Years, 1930–6: 8. Boult's initial seasons, 1930–1, 1931–2; 9. Transition to the new régime, 1932–3, 1933–4; 10. Policies and politics, 1934–5, 1935–6; 11. Clark's legacy; Appendices; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.