The Cambridge Cultural History: Volume 9, Modern Britain  19829

Part I: The Cultural and Social Setting

• The Cultural and Social Setting  Roy Shaw and Gwen Shaw[rtoc]
  • Wartime beginnings
  • Post-war achievements and disillusion
  • Cultural democracy: a mixed blessing?
  • Radio, television, and the press
  • The consumer society
  • The youth culture phenomenon
  • The permissive society
  • The Arts Council
  • Class, the New Left, and education
  • Pressure groups in the seventies
  • Nuclear anxieties
  • Economic crisis and a divided society[/rtoc]

Part II: Studies in the Individual Arts

1. Music  Paul Griffiths[rtoc]
   • Introduction: a more musical Britain?
   • Benjamin Britten
   • Michael Tippett
   • Around Britten and Tippett
   • The generation of the thirties
   • The generation of the forties and fifties[/rtoc]
2. Ballet  Fernau Hall[rtoc]
   • Introduction: historical overview
   • Frederick Ashton
   • Ninette de Valois
   • Antony Tudor
   • Kenneth MacMillan
   • La Sylphide
   • Christopher Bruce[/rtoc]
3. The Visual Arts  Peter Fuller[rtoc]
   • Nature and raw flesh: Graham Sutherland and Francis Bacon
   • Henry Moore and after
   • Conclusion: decadence and hope[/rtoc]
4. New Towns  Andrew Saint[rtoc]
   • Stevenage and Milton Keynes
5. The Third Programme  Boris Ford
6. The Crafts  Christopher Frayling[rtoc]
   • Introduction: concepts of ‘craftsmanship’ since the War
   • The designer-craftsman
   • The arts and craftsman
   • The craftsman’s artist[/rtoc]
7. Literature and Drama  Gilbert Phelps[rtoc]
   • Books in the market place
   • The poetry boom
   • Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes
   • Post-war drama
   • Joyce Cary, Angus Wilson and Doris Lessing[/rtoc]
8. Film  Neil Sinyard[rtoc]
   • David Lean
   • Ealing Studios and Alexander Mackendrick
   • Joseph Losey
   • Nicolas Roeg[/rtoc]
9. Architecture  Joseph Rykwert[rtoc]
   • Planning New Tows
   • Prefabrication and CLASP
   • Housing in London
   • Festival and fifties
   • The development of universities
   • Problems of scale and density
   • Disillusion in the seventies
   • The eighties[/rtoc]
10. Housing at Roehampton  Simon Pepper
11. Industrial Design  John Heskett[rtoc]
    • Industrial design since the Second World War

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