The Edinburgh festivals : culture and society in postwar Britain / Angela Bartie.
Bartie, Angela| Call Number | 700.744134 |
| Author | Bartie, Angela, author. |
| Title | The Edinburgh festivals : culture and society in postwar Britain / Angela Bartie. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (viii, 258 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | Introduction -- The cultural resort of Europe: the creation of the Festival, c. 1944-1947 -- Cultural challenge: the creation of a 'fringe', 1947-1955 -- Convergence of cultures: new developments in the arts, 1956-1962 -- Culture and (im)morality: the year of the happening, 1963 -- Cultural explosion: the arts and moral conflict in Edinburgh in the high sixties, 1964-1967 -- Cultural crisis? Protest and reaction, 1968-1970 -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. List of Lord Provosts/Edinburgh Festival Society chairs and festival artistic directors, 1947-1970 -- Appendix 2. Short biographies of oral history interviewees. Introduction -- The cultural resort of Europe: the creation of the festival, c. 1944-1947 -- Cultural challenge: the creation of 'fringe', 1947-1955 -- Convergence of cultures: new developments in the arts, 1956-1962 -- Culture and (im)morality: the year of the happening, 1963 -- Cultural explosion: the arts and moral conflict in Edinburgh in the high sixties, 1964-1967 --Cultural crisis? Protest and reaction, 1968-1970 -- Conclusion -- Appendices: 1. List of lord provosts/ Edinburgh festival society chairs and festival artistic directors, 1947-1970 -- 2. Short biographies of oral history interviewees sources and select bibliography. |
| Summary | "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, the practice and significance of the arts, censorship, the role of organised religion, and meanings of morality were all reflected in contest over culture in the Festival City. The Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama sought to use culture to bolster European civilisation, for which it was considered for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952. The Church saw culture as a ‘weapon of enlightenment’, the labour movement as a ‘weapon in the struggle’, and the new generation of artistic entrepreneurs who came to the fore in the 1960s as a means of challenge and provocation, resulting in high profile controversies like the nudity trial of 1963 and the furore over a play about bestiality in 1967. These ideas - conservative and liberal, elite and diverse, traditional and avant-garde – all clashed every August in Edinburgh, making the Festival City an effective lens for exploring major changes in culture and society in post-war Britain. This book explores the ‘culture wars’ of 1945-1970 and is the first major study of the origins and development of this leading annual arts extravaganza." |
| Subject | Performing arts festivals Scotland Edinburgh. Social change Great Britain History 20th century. Edinburgh International Festival History. |
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| Summary | "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, the practice and significance of the arts, censorship, the role of organised religion, and meanings of morality were all reflected in contest over culture in the Festival City. The Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama sought to use culture to bolster European civilisation, for which it was considered for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952. The Church saw culture as a ‘weapon of enlightenment’, the labour movement as a ‘weapon in the struggle’, and the new generation of artistic entrepreneurs who came to the fore in the 1960s as a means of challenge and provocation, resulting in high profile controversies like the nudity trial of 1963 and the furore over a play about bestiality in 1967. These ideas - conservative and liberal, elite and diverse, traditional and avant-garde – all clashed every August in Edinburgh, making the Festival City an effective lens for exploring major changes in culture and society in post-war Britain. This book explores the ‘culture wars’ of 1945-1970 and is the first major study of the origins and development of this leading annual arts extravaganza." |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | Introduction -- The cultural resort of Europe: the creation of the Festival, c. 1944-1947 -- Cultural challenge: the creation of a 'fringe', 1947-1955 -- Convergence of cultures: new developments in the arts, 1956-1962 -- Culture and (im)morality: the year of the happening, 1963 -- Cultural explosion: the arts and moral conflict in Edinburgh in the high sixties, 1964-1967 -- Cultural crisis? Protest and reaction, 1968-1970 -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. List of Lord Provosts/Edinburgh Festival Society chairs and festival artistic directors, 1947-1970 -- Appendix 2. Short biographies of oral history interviewees. Introduction -- The cultural resort of Europe: the creation of the festival, c. 1944-1947 -- Cultural challenge: the creation of 'fringe', 1947-1955 -- Convergence of cultures: new developments in the arts, 1956-1962 -- Culture and (im)morality: the year of the happening, 1963 -- Cultural explosion: the arts and moral conflict in Edinburgh in the high sixties, 1964-1967 --Cultural crisis? Protest and reaction, 1968-1970 -- Conclusion -- Appendices: 1. List of lord provosts/ Edinburgh festival society chairs and festival artistic directors, 1947-1970 -- 2. Short biographies of oral history interviewees sources and select bibliography. |
| Subject | Performing arts festivals Scotland Edinburgh. Social change Great Britain History 20th century. Edinburgh International Festival History. |
| Multimedia |