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Skladateljska društva nekoč in danes | Composers’ Societies Past and Present
building a new postwar cultural world could permit greater flexibility and
multilateral cultural exchange than was subsequently the case in the final
years of Stalin’s leadership. While, ironically, he would attribute the posi-
tive things he experienced as the historical movement towards socialism,
his success in undertaking his tour and promoting it back in Britain rather
reveal individual initiative and a classic historical “What if?”

Bibliography

Archival Sources
Alan Bush Archive, Histon, Cambridge, UK
Bush, Alan. “The Outlook for the British Composer” (1942).
Bush, Alan. “Soviet Musical Life” (1945–6).
Bush, Alan. “Script for Broadcast to Jugoslavia” (1947), 1–4.
Bush, Alan. “A Musician in Eastern Europe,” (1947), 1–2.
Bush, Alan. “The Composers’ Guild,” The Author (1947), photostat copy, 1–3.

BBC Written Archives Centre, UK
RCONT1: Copyright, Bush, Alan, 1934–1962.

British Library, UK, Alan Bush Collection
MS Mus. 440: Correspondence with Grigori Shneerson.
MS Mus. 463: Miscellaneous Correspondence 1948.
MS Mus. 464: Miscellaneous Correspondence January-April 1949.
MS Mus. 642: Correspondence with the Composers’ Guild I, 1945–60.
MS Mus. 655: SPNM; Syndikat Ceskych Skladatelu.
MS Mus. 672: Correspondence with South Africa/Chile/China/Guyana.
The National Archives: Public Record Office (TNA: PRO), UK
KV2/3515–6: Bush, Alan D.

Literature
Alwyn, William. “Notes in Retrospect.” In Time Remembered. Alan Bush:
An 80th Birthday Symposium, edited by Ronald Stevenson, 111–115.
Kidderminster: Bravura Publications, 1981.
Bullivant, Joanna. Alan Bush, Modern Music, and the Cold War: The Cultural
Left in Britain and the Communist Bloc. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2017.

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