Contents
Contents
Introduction
1 James Barke: A Great- hearted Writer, a Hater of Oppression, a True Scot
2 To Disable the Enemy: the Graphic Art of the Three Jameses
3 Heirs to the Pageant: Mass Spectacle and the Popular Front
4 Notes From the Left: Communism and British Classical Music
5 Sylvia Townsend Warner in the 1930s
6 An Intellectual Irrelevance? Marxist Literary Criticism in the 1930s
7 King Street Blues: Jazz and the Left in Britain in the 1930s-1940s
8 The Boys Round the Corner: the Story of Fore Publications
9 The Edinburgh People's Festival, 1951
10 The World s Ill- Divided : the Communist Party and Progressive Song
11 The Sunshine of Socialism: the CPGB and Film in the 1950s
Afterword
Notes on Contributors