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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.