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A Culture for Democracy - Mass Communication and the Cultivated Mind in Britain between the Wars (Hardcover)
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A Culture for Democracy - Mass Communication and the Cultivated Mind in Britain between the Wars (Hardcover)
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This book analyses the relationship between commercial and elite
culture in Britain in the early twentieth century. The development
of popular national daily newspapers, the cinema, the radio, the
gramophone, and other forms of mass entertainment threatened to
upset traditional patterns of British culture. Writers, artists,
musicians, critics, and their sympathizers responded in a variety
of ways. Some engaged in detailed polemics against the mass media;
others, such as those associated with the BBC, embraced new
technology and sought to uplift tastes. These groups struggled
against a culture that measured success by popularity rather than
aesthetic merit. With the significant extension of the franchise in
1918 and 1928, Britain finally enjoyed full parliamentary
democracy. What culture was appropriate for that democracy became
an issue which pitted the forces of the market place against the
influence of an articulate minority.
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