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Overview
"Hans Keller (1919-85), musician and writer - but also psychologist, sociologist and polemicist - dominated British musical life during the 40 years that followed the Second World War. His original and stimulating ideas made a deep impression on creative musicians and ordinary music-lovers alike: as one composer has put it, 'he taught a whole generation of us'. This influence was greatly magnified by the 30 years that he spent as an active broadcaster, 20 of them on the staff of the BBC." This unique study of Keller's BBC work is a vivid portrait of the changing face of British broadcasting seen through the work of one of its most significant personalities. Starting with an examination of Keller's early psychological interests, and the evolution of his method of 'functional analysis' of music (with which the BBC was intimately concerned), the book charts the huge contribution Keller made to British music during his BBC years. Also explored in detail are the successive crises of the Third Programme and its replacement by Radio 3, together with Keller's leading role in opposing the decline of the BBC's cultural idealism.Book Details
Published
January 2, 2003
Publisher
Aldershot ; Ashgate, c2003.
Pages
194
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780754608974