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This chapter draws conclusions from the 50-year history and considers how successful classical music radio efforts have been in seeking to engage with the widest range of potential listeners ‘on equal terms’. It summarises the pattern of classical music radio provision between 1945 and 1995 in programme content and audiences, and then looks at how the interplay between elite and mass culture, mediated through the influence of class, is relevant to any overall social and political history of the UK during this period. The chapter offers observations on the nature of listening to classical music radio, the impact of approaches to its presentation, the relevance of biography and finally the changing nature of public service radio broadcasting.
The pattern of classical music radio provision 1945–1995: content; audiences–elite and mass culture–the nature of listening to classical music radio–presentation–the relevance of biography–the changing nature of public service radio broadcasting–a story worth the telling.
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See Appendix A4, p. 253–254.
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This was the title of art critic and historian Robert Hughes’ (1980) examination of the impact of radical innovation in 20th-century visual arts, but it serves equally well for other cultural forms.
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‘Public service radio broadcasting’ is abbreviated here to ‘PSRB’ to distinguish it from the common usage of ‘PSB’, which also covers television.
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See Chap. 1, p. 20.
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Stoller, T. (2018). Conclusions: Engaging on Equal Terms?. In: Classical Music Radio in the United Kingdom, 1945–1995. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64710-4_8
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