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The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes »

Authors: Jennifer Doctor, Doctor Jennifer
ISBN-13: 9780521035866, ISBN-10: 0521035864
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: May 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)

This book examines the BBC's attempts to manipulate critical and public responses to contemporary music between 1922 and
1936.

	List of tables
	Acknowledgements
	List of abbreviations
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	The Emergence of BBC Music Programmes
1	The British music industry and the BBC between the wars	13
2	BBC personnel, policies and programmes in the 1920s	22
Pt. II	The Pitt Years, 1922-1929
3	The foundations of music programming, 1922-1926	59
4	The music programmes take shape, 1926-1927	80
5	The first wave of Second Viennese School broadcasts, 1927-1928	96
6	Refining the music programmes, 1928-1929	126
7	Pitt's final season, 1929-1930	153
Pt. III	The Early Boult Years, 1930-1936
8	Boult's initial seasons, 1930-1931, 1931-1932	187
9	Transition to the new regime, 1932-1933, 1933-1934	230
10	Policies and politics, 1934-1935, 1935-1936	281
11	Clark's legacy	329
App. A	British performances of Second Viennese School works, January 1912-May 1936	337
App. B	BBC Concerts of Contemporary Music, 1926-1936	366
App. C	Biographical summaries	390
	Notes	411
	Selected bibliography	463
	Index	487