Eight talks on some of the new directions in European culture in the early 20th century. 6: American Experiment by MALCOLM BRADBURY , Reader in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia.
During the early 20th century avant-garde activity in America had two main streams - one that looked abroad to the European tradition, one that looked within to the home tradition of progress. They interact complicatedly.
(These talks were first 'broadcast as part of The Radical Years, a series on the music revolution - 1909-1918)