Overview
- Offers an engaging exploration of the interplay between politics and audio modernism, questioning the role of MI5 surveillance and vetting of creative and political agitprop BBC radio features during the 1930's
- Uniquely examines pioneering sound drama modernism of British record companies during the early 20th century
- Provides direct links to an online archive of more than 100 audio dramas made between 1904 and 1939 that are now out of copyright
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Sound (PASTS)
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Audio Drama and Modernism traces the development of political and modernist sound drama during the first 40 years of the 20th Century. It demonstrates how pioneers in the phonograph age made significant, innovative contributions to sound fiction before, during, and after the Great War. In stunning detail, Tim Crook examines prominent British modernist radio writers and auteurs, revealing how they negotiated their agitational contemporaneity against the forces of Institutional containment and dramatic censorship. The book tells the story of key figures such as Russell Hunting, who after being jailed for making ‘sound pornography’ in the USA, travelled to Britain to pioneer sound comedy and montage in the pre-Radio age; Reginald Berkeley who wrote the first full-length anti-war play for the BBC in 1925; and D.G. Bridson, Olive Shapley and Joan Littlewood who all struggled to give a Marxist voice to the working classes on British radio.
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Front Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Professor Tim Crook is an award-winning academic, playwright and journalist who specializes in investigative history projects that have social, political and cultural impact. He has been Head of Radio at Goldsmiths, University of London for 30 years, and President of the Chartered Institute of Journalists.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Audio Drama Modernism
Book Subtitle: The Missing Link between Descriptive Phonograph Sketches and Microphone Plays on the Radio
Authors: Tim Crook
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Sound
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8241-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8240-0Published: 20 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8243-1Published: 20 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-8241-7Published: 19 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2633-5875
Series E-ISSN: 2633-5883
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 339
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Music, British Culture