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"Music-making in a Joyous Sense": Democratization, Modernity, and Community at Benjamin Britten's Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts

Hautzinger, Daniel
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1462805190

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2016, BA, Oberlin College, History.
In 1948, the composer Benjamin Britten inaugurated the Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts in the provincial British town of Aldeburgh. My research explores Britten’s attempt through the Festival to democratize culture and combat the alienation and consumerism of modernity by creating a vividly human community based upon shared, localized musical experience. Through amateur participation and interpersonal connection, Britten sought to affirm the social value of art in the modern era and make it available to all people, enacting the social ideals of the time in the realm of culture.
Annemarie Sammartino (Advisor)
63 p.
History; Music
Benjamin Britten; Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts; Aldeburgh; welfare state; modernity; social democracy; twentieth century music; 20th century of music;

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  • Hautzinger, D. (2016). "Music-making in a Joyous Sense": Democratization, Modernity, and Community at Benjamin Britten's Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts [Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1462805190

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hautzinger, Daniel. "Music-making in a Joyous Sense": Democratization, Modernity, and Community at Benjamin Britten's Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts. 2016. Oberlin College, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1462805190.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hautzinger, Daniel. ""Music-making in a Joyous Sense": Democratization, Modernity, and Community at Benjamin Britten's Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts." Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1462805190

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