Classical Music Radio in the United Kingdom, 1945-1995

ISBN-13: 9783319878522 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 297 str.

Tony Stoller

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction: The music we are accustomed to call classical.- Chapter 2. The Forties: A pyramid of taste.- Chapter 3. The Fifties: Defending the elite.- Chapter 4.  The Sixties: Simple and conservative tastes.- Chapter 5. The Seventies: Breaking the monopoly.- Chapter 6. The Eighties: Keeping the Philistines at bay.- Chapter 7. The Nineties: Saga louts and dumbing down.- Chapter 8. Conclusions: Engaging on equal terms?.- Appendices.- Bibliography.- Index

O autorze

Tony Stoller is Visiting Professor at Bournemouth University, UK. He was Chief Executive of the Radio Authority from 1995 until it was succeeded by Ofcom, where he helped establish the new regulator. In 2004 he was awarded a CBE for services to broadcasting, and he was elected a Fellow of the Radio Academy in 2003. He is the author of Sounds of Your Life: The History of Independent Radio in the UK (2010), and researches, writes and lectures about the history of sound broadcasting in the UK.