Alan Bush, Modern Music, and the Cold War: The Cultural Left in Britain and the Communist Bloc

Contents

• Introduction;
• 1. Bush as modernist: material and performance;
• 2. Bush as activist: the idea of workers' music;
• 3. Bush as outsider: music and communism in wartime;
• 4. Building in the rubble: the winter journey and Lidice;
• 5. Bush as Stalinist: the year 1948;
• 6. Bush and the self: Wat Tyler's rituals of becoming;
• 7. Bush and East Germany: opera, sex, and the communist body.