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1 online resource (viii, 258 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-253) and index. |
| Contents |
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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4 -- 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
This title provides a critical history of the first 25 years of the world's biggest arts festival: the Edinburgh Festival. It uses the festival as a lens for understanding wider social and cultural change in post-war Britain. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Edinburgh International Festival -- History.
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Edinburgh International Festival. |
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History. |
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Performing arts festivals -- Scotland -- Edinburgh.
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Performing arts festivals. |
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Scotland -- Edinburgh. |
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Social change -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Social change. |
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Great Britain. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bartie, Angela. Edinburgh festivals. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013 9780748670307 (OCoLC)823896784 |
| ISBN |
9780748670314 (electronic book) |
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0748670319 (electronic book) |
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9780748670307 |
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0748670300 |
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9780748670321 (epub) |
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0748670327 |
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9781299701526 |
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1299701523 |
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