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Keynes & the Arts Council on Radio 3

9th Mar 202215th Jun 2022 Emma WestLeave a comment

I recently spoke to Anne McElvoy and guests on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking about the economist John Maynard Keynes's work for the early Arts Council. Image: John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova by Walter Bennington, NPG x90117 © National Portrait Gallery, London.

Posted in News & ReviewsTagged Arts Council, arts organisations, BBC, CEMA, Free Thinking, John Maynard Keynes, state patronage

Canteen Concerts & the Politics of Play

16th Sep 201911th Dec 2019 Emma West1 Comment

This weekend I shared my research into WWII factory canteen concerts at the ‘Play and its Potential Publics’ symposium at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL.

Posted in Art for the People, News & ReviewsTagged CEMA, class, concerts, ENSA, factory, film, gender, Ministry of Labour, music, performance, state patronage, taste, WWII
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