This book explores the hitherto neglected history of the campaign
for state funding of the arts. By focusing on the important but
forgotten movements for music and drama subsidy before and during
WWII, Howard Webber makes an important contribution to the history
of arts subsidy. Before the Arts Council rediscovers three
forgotten but influential campaigns for state support of the arts
in Britain in the 1930s and wartime. Webber's impressive historical
excavation challenges existing scholarship, which argues that arts
subsidy was the result of the war, and instead re-situates the
campaign's origins in the pre-war years. Webber does so by drawing
on correspondence from influential figures including Ralph Vaughan
Williams, John Maynard Keynes and J.B Priestley, along with
extensive use of government papers. Before the Arts Council is a
lively, compelling and scrupulously researched account of a subject
consistently misunderstood and misrepresented. It changes our
understanding of an aspect of British cultural history we thought
we knew well. It will appeal to students of twentieth century
social and political history and to anyone with a general interest
in the arts and in this period.
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