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.
| ISBN: | 9789811582431 |
| Publication date: | 20th November 2021 |
| Author: | Tim Crook |
| Publisher: | Springer Verlag, Singapore |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 339 pages |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Sound |
| Genres: |
Society and Social Sciences Sociology Music Cultural studies |
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.
Audio Drama Modernism features in the following genres: Society and Social Sciences, Sociology, Music, Cultural studies
Audio Drama Modernism is available in Paperback
Audio Drama Modernism was written by Tim Crook and published by Springer Verlag, Singapore
Audio Drama Modernism has 339 pages
Yes it is part of Palgrave Studies in Sound series
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