Alan Bush, Modern Music, and the Cold War - The Cultural Left in Britain and the Communist Bloc

The first major study of British communist composer Alan Bush, providing new perspectives on music and politics during the Cold War.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Bush as modernist: material and performance; 2. Bush as activist: the idea of workers' music; 3. Bush as outsider: music and communism in wartime; 4. Building in the rubble: the winter journey and Lidi¿e; 5. Bush as Stalinist: the year 1948; 6. Bush and the self: Wat Tyler's rituals of becoming; 7. Bush and East Germany: opera, sex, and the communist body.

About the author

Joanna Bullivant is Lecturer in Music at Magdalen College, Oxford. She has published widely on British composers, modernism, and music and politics. This is her first book.

Product details

• Authors: Joanna Bullivant, Joanna (University of Oxford) Bullivant
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2022
• EAN: 9781009158794
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0915879-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Music Since 1900
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / History & Criticism, 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Theory of music & musicology, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Music reviews and criticism, The Cold War, Marxism & Communism, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Theory of music and musicology