The BBC and ultra-modern music, 1922-1936

Description:

"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.

subjects: Avant garde (Music),  British Broadcasting Corporation,  History,  History and criticism,  Music,  Performances,  Radio and music,  Popular music, history and criticism,  Avant-garde (Music)

People: Alban Berg (1885-1935),  Anton Webern (1883-1945),  Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

Places: Great Britain

Times: 20th century