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Colin Mason's Music in Britain 1951-62 carries forward Rollo Myers's Music since 1939, a survey ofthe war years, which was continued in Frank Howes's Music 1945-50. It appraises the work of some composers and performers who have recently come to the fore, examines the functions of the chief...

FILMS SINCE 1939 Every week in Great Britain roughly twenty-five million people go to the cinema. It is the chief urban entertainment; in cities and industrial centres it has long supplanted the theatre as the great popular recreation, and gradually it is gaining a hold over the countryside too,...