The Edinburgh festivals: culture and society in postwar Britain
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1. Verfasser: Bartie, Angela (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2013
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-253) and index
Acknowledgements; Figures; Abbreviations; 1 -- Introduction; ARTS FESTIVALS: HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE; CULTURE IN POST-WAR SOCIETY; LOCATING THE FESTIVALS IN POST-WAR SOCIETY; NOTES; 2 -- The Cultural Resort of Europe: The Creation of the Festival, c. 1944-1947; THE INITIAL PROPOSAL; SHAPING THE FESTIVAL; HOSTESS OF THE ARTS; WEAPON OF ENLIGHTENMENT; NOTES; 3 -- Cultural Challenge: The Creation of a 'Fringe' 1947-1955; POST-WAR BRITISH SOCIETY; DEFINING 'CULTURE'; THE BIRTH OF THE FRINGE; 1953: CULTURAL CLASH IN EDINBURGH; NOTES.
4 -- Convergence of Cultures: New Developments in the Arts, 1956-1962THE FRINGE AND BEYOND THE FRINGE; SOCIETY IN TRANSITION; THE PAPERBACK BOOKSHOP; THE INTERNATIONAL WRITERS' CONFERENCE 1962; NOTES; 5 -- Culture and (Im)morality: The Year of the Happening, 1963; 'ANNUS MIRABILIS'; THE TRAVERSE THEATRE CLUB; THE INTERNATIONAL DRAMA CONFERENCE; 'ACT OF SAN FRANCISCO AT EDINBURGH'; 'GODLESSNESS AND DIRT': MORAL OUTRAGE AND CULTURAL CONFLICT; THE 'LADY MACCHATTERLEY' TRIAL; NOTES; 6 -- Cultural Explosion: The Arts and Moral Conflict in Edinburgh in the High Sixties, 1964-1967
CULTURE, THEATRE AND MORALITY IN THE HIGH SIXTIESTHE CHANGING NATURE OF THE FESTIVAL AND THE FRINGE; FUNDING CULTURE IN THE HIGH SIXTIES; 'THE JOY OF EXPERIMENT': THE RISING PROFILE OF EXPERIMENTAL ART; 'IF ART IS OFFENSIVE, IS IT NOT STILL ART?'; THE 'FUTZ FURORE'; NOTES; 7 -- Cultural Crisis? Protest and Reaction, 1968-1970; ARTS LABS AND FRINGE THEATRE; THE FESTIVAL CITY AND ARTS GOVERNANCE IN A NEW CLIMATE; THE BACKLASH AGAINST PERMISSIVENESS; THE FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD?; NOTES; 8 -- Conclusion; NOTES.
Appendix 1 -- List of Lord Provosts/Chairs of the Edinburgh Festival Society and Artistic Directors of the Edinburgh International Festival, 1947-1970Appendix 2 -- Short Biographies of Oral History Interviewees; Sources and Select Bibliography; ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS; ARCHIVE SOURCES; NEWSPAPERS, JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES; BOOK CHAPTERS AND JOURNAL AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES; BOOKS; REPORTS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS; UNPUBLISHED THESES, ARTICLES AND OTHER ACCOUNTS; WEB-BASED SOURCES; Index
This title provides a critical history of the first 25 years of the world's biggest arts festival: the Edinburgh Festival. It uses the festival as a lens for understanding wider social and cultural change in post-war Britain
Beschreibung:viii, 258 pages
ISBN:9780748670314
0748670319
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9780748670321
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9781299701526
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