20.500.12556/RUP-22754 The Composers’ Guild of Great Britain and “unofficial” musical diplomacy in Eastern Europe Skladateljski ceh Velike Britanije in »neuradna diplomacija« v Vzhodni Evropi The Composers’ Guild of Great Britain was founded in 1945 with respectable patronage from grandees like Ralph Vaughan Williams and a business-like set of aims towards promoting the careers and rights of working composers and forming links with similar groups in other countries. Consequently, its role in Cold War diplomacy has understandably been overlooked in comparison with efforts like the legendary officially-sponsored visits of Benjamin Britten to the Soviet Union between 1963 and 1971. Nevertheless, as this paper will demonstrate, the Guild played an intriguing unofficial diplomatic role in the early postwar period. Composer and British communist Alan Bush, Chair of the Guild in 1947-8, used extensive travels in Eastern Europe to attempt to draw the Guild into diplomatic alliances associated with the Soviet sphere of influence. While his efforts ultimately failed, his connections remained important into the early 1960s with the successful 1960 visit to the USSR by Bush and then-Chair Elizabeth Maconchy. By tracing Bush’s unofficial diplomacy in these years and his influence upon the Guild, this paper will show the nuanced political role a national composers’ society could play, even in the face of an official national position far less receptive to relations with Eastern Europe. Skladateljski ceh Velike Britanije je bil ustanovljen leta 1945 pod pokroviteljstvom uglednih osebnosti, kot je Ralph Vaughan Williams, in s podjetniško usmeritvijo spodbujanja kariere in pravic zaposlenih skladateljev ter vzpostavljanja povezav s podobnimi združenji v drugih državah. Tako ni presenetljivo, da je bila njegova vloga v hladnovojni diplomaciji prezrta – v primerjavi s prizadevanji, kot so bili znameniti, uradno podprti obiski Benjamina Brittna v Sovjetski zvezi med letoma 1963 in 1971. Vendar pa je ceh, kot bo pokazal ta prispevek, v zgodnjem povojnem obdobju odigral zanimivo neuradno diplomatsko vlogo. Britanski skladatelj in komunist Alan Bush, predsednik ceha v letih 1947 in 1948, je na številnih potovanjih po Vzhodni Evropi poskušal to organizacijo vključiti v razna diplomatska zavezništva, povezana s sovjetsko interesno sfero. Busheva prizadevanja so bila sicer neuspešna, vendar pa so njegove povezave ostale pomembne vse do zgodnjih šestdesetih let, zlasti kar zadeva njegov uspešni obisk ZSSR leta 1960, na katerem ga je spremljala takratna predsednica ceha Elizabeth Maconchy. Prispevek opisuje Bushevo neuradno diplomacijo v teh letih in njegov vpliv na ceh ter pokaže, kako niansirano politično vlogo je lahko imelo nacionalno združenje skladateljev, čeprav je bilo uradno stališče države precej manj naklonjeno odnosom z Vzhodno Evropo. Alan Bush Composers’ Guild of Great Britain diplomacy Yugoslavia music and politics Alan Bush Skladateljski ceh Velike Britanije diplomacija Jugoslavija glasba in politika true false false Založba Univerze na Primorskem in Festival Ljubljana Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Delo ni kategorizirano 2026-03-10 11:11:54 2026-03-10 11:11:54 2026-03-11 03:08:27 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 Koper in Ljubljana 0 str. 139-158 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 9789612935559 https://doi.org/10.26493/978-961-293-555-9.139-158 ZUP_Bullivant_Joanna_2026.pdf ZUP_Bullivant_Joanna_2026.pdf 1 3F9AA6DAC430B0EC208DD52F97123547 485ea6b67c34ffe05ca20b1ebfbd4e5e36c977ab2bfccdbaf3f75beb04310782 0542c7f8-1c6a-11f1-9e8d-005056ac49c0 https://repozitorij.upr.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=33155 https://hippocampus.si/ISBN/978-961-293-555-9/139-157.pdf 0 fe6edbdc-1c69-11f1-9e8d-005056ac49c0 https://repozitorij.upr.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=33154 Založba Univerze na Primorskem 0 0 0