The first major study of Alan Bush, this book provides new perspectives on twentieth-century music and communism. British communist, composer of politicised wor

The first major study of British communist composer Alan Bush, providing new perspectives on music and politics during the Cold War.

A thematically organised overview of the musical, social and cultural contexts for the multi-faceted career of this pivotal British composer.

Randall Swingler (1909–67) was arguably the most significant and the best-known radical English poet of his generation. A widely published poet, playwright, n

Combining analyses of modernist concert and stage music by Elisabeth Lutyens with those of her audio-visual scores, and contextualising Lutyens and Edward Clark