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The Edinburgh festivals : culture and society in postwar Britain /
Post-war culture and society and the Edinburgh Festivals The Edinburgh Festival is the world's largest arts festival. It has also been the site of numerous 'culture wars' since it began in 1947. Key debates that took place across the western world about the place of culture in society...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Ebook Central Academic Complete Collection
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
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- 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.