TY - JOUR
T1 - Marxists, manifestos, and "musical uproar"
T2 - Alan Bush, the 1948 Prague Congress, and the British Composers' Guild
AU - Waters, Julie A.
PY - 2011/1
Y1 - 2011/1
N2 - British composer Alan Bush, a committed Marxist, played an active role in mainstream British musical life. In 1948 he participated in the Second International Congress of Composers and Musicologists in Prague - a meeting of musicians largely from the East Bloc - and subsequently attempted, with left-wing colleagues, to promote the Prague Manifesto within the British Composers' Guild. His proposal to associate the Guild with an international association of "progressive" composers gave rise to significant turbulence within the organization, and set off British ideological battles in the arena of music during the early years of the Cold War.
AB - British composer Alan Bush, a committed Marxist, played an active role in mainstream British musical life. In 1948 he participated in the Second International Congress of Composers and Musicologists in Prague - a meeting of musicians largely from the East Bloc - and subsequently attempted, with left-wing colleagues, to promote the Prague Manifesto within the British Composers' Guild. His proposal to associate the Guild with an international association of "progressive" composers gave rise to significant turbulence within the organization, and set off British ideological battles in the arena of music during the early years of the Cold War.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79551663553&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01411896.2010.513323
DO - 10.1080/01411896.2010.513323
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79551663553
SN - 0141-1896
VL - 30
SP - 23
EP - 45
JO - Journal of Musicological Research
JF - Journal of Musicological Research
IS - 1
ER -