The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes
This book examines the BBC's campaign to raise the 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 contemporary music between 1922, when the BBC was founded, and spring 1936. This reception study traces and analyzes the BBC's attempts to manipulate critical and public responses to this repertory.
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Page 27 - I think it will be admitted by all, that to have exploited so great a scientific invention for the purpose and pursuit of "entertainment" alone would have been a prostitution of its powers and an insult to the character and intelligence of the people.
Page 28 - As we conceive it, our responsibility is to carry into the greatest possible number of homes everything that is best in every department of human knowledge, endeavour and achievement, and to avoid the things which are, or may be, hurtful.
Page 28 - It is occasionally indicated to us that we are apparently setting out to give the public what we think they need— and not what they want, but few know what they want, and very few what they need.
Page 22 - In five years' time the general musical public of these islands will be treble or quadruple its present size.
Page 305 - It reported in 1936 that it was impressed by "the influence of broadcasting upon the mind and spirit of the nation." It felt that a great debt of gratitude was owed to "the wisdom which founded the British Broadcasting Corporation in its present form and to the prudence and idealism which have characterised its operations".
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Page 187 - BBC's history, which began with the move to Broadcasting House. From 1932 to 1939, when the war saved the BBC from itself, was the great Stuffed Shirt era, marked internally by paternalism run riot, bureaucracy of the most...
Page 187 - Shirt era, marked internally by paternalism run riot, bureaucracy of the most hierarchial type, an administration system that made productive work harder instead of easier, and a tendency to promote the most negative characters to be found amongst the staff. Externally it was similarly marked by aloofness, resentment of criticism, and a positive contempt for the listener, which was only finally to be broken down by the joint influence of Listener Research and the war.
Page 390 - ... from Oxford. After posts at Ely and St Asaph's Cathedrals, in 1901 he became organist of New College, Oxford, and was active in the musical life of the city and university. As university choragus, after 1909, he had a considerable influence on musical education at the university. From 1918 Allen was director of the Royal College of Music and professor of Music at Oxford, posts in which his powerful personality and insistence on practical music-making had a profound effect. Knighted in 1920, he...
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| Title | The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes Volume 10 of Music in the Twentieth Century |
| Author | Jennifer Ruth Doctor |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 052166117X, 9780521661171 |
| Length | 508 pages |
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