A Culture for Democracy
Mass Communication and the Cultivated Mind in Britain between the Wars
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 30 June 1988
- ISBN 9780198201373
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages406 pages
- Size 240x162x27 mm
- Weight 760 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 pp plates 0
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Long description:
This book analyses the relationship between commercial and elite culture in Britain in the early twentieth century. The development of popular national daily newspapers, the cinema, the radio, the gramophone, and other forms of mass entertainment threatened to upset traditional patterns of British culture. Writers, artists, musicians, critics, and their sympathizers responded in a variety of ways. Some engaged in detailed polemics against the mass media; others, such as those associated with the BBC, embraced new technology and sought to uplift tastes. These groups struggled against a culture that measured success by popularity rather than aesthetic merit. With the significant extension of the franchise in 1918 and 1928, Britain finally enjoyed full parliamentary democracy. What culture was appropriate for that democracy became an issue which pitted the forces of the market place against the influence of an articulate minority.
'set out with great lucidity and a wealth of fascinating reference ... contains much shrewd and suggestive commentary on the BBC ... on the documentary movement, on the Leavises ... Its value lies not least in the questions it provokes.'
Paul Smith, Times Literary Supplement
