Una Marson at the BBC
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4860217 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Procter (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1-28 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1534-6714 • E-ISSN: 0799-0537 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/07990537-3341693 |
| OpenAlex | W2182533926 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 6 |
This essay focuses on the Jamaican poet, dramatist, and broadcaster Una Marson (1905-65) and her turbulent career at the BBC between 1939 and 1946. Drawing on a range of unpublished archival sources, including files recently vetted and released for research since the publication of Delia Jarrett-Macauley's authoritative biography of Marson in 1998, the essay has two primary aims. First, to recover in greater detail and in more holistic terms than has previously been possible the personal story of Marson's professional relationships at the corporation. Second, to pursue what the director of Empire Services described as the "jealousies," "dissentions," and "rivalry" that Marson's appointment provoked during a relatively neglected period of black metropolitan cultural production in the early 1940s
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Biography · Corporation · Empire · Management · Media studies · Metropolitan area · Period (music · Political science · Rivalry · Sociology · Visual arts · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Law
Black feminist frequencies and loneliness in the archive
Transnational Cultural Exchange
The art of failure in Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark and Una Marson's The Moth and the Star
Erased and Misremembered
Hearing Global Britishness on the BBC's Commonwealth of Song (1953–1961)
African opinion and the Commonwealth
Sight unseen
Making Waves
Digitally Mapping Caribbean London
The Caribbean
| Citations per year | 0.83 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |