The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922–1936
Shaping a Nation's Tastes
- Author: Doctor, Jennifer
Crammed with ... source material out of the BBC's capacious archives, this book offers a major contribution to the history of music in 20th-century Britain — More…
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Contents
- 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 regime, 1932-3, 1933-4
- 10. Policies and politics, 1934-5, 1935-6
- 11. Clark's legacy
- Appendices
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Index.