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Contact’s basic intentions – as set out fully in the first issue, dated Spring 1971 – were to promote informed discussion of 20th-century music in general and the music of our own time in particular. Among the original concerns of the founders of the magazine – Chris Villars, a philosophy student, and myself, at the time a second-year music undergraduate (both at the University of Birmingham) – were that popular musics, jazz and contemporary folk music should play a part in our scheme. In the earlier days, especially, we continually sought for good writing in these fields, as well as contributions on ‘serious’ music; as Chris and I wrote in the editorial to the first issue: “Our hope was that we would do a little towards bringing these different fields together and some of the people involved in them, in addition to ‘making contact’ with those unacquainted with, or unsympathetic towards, modern music in general - and, especially, many contemporary styles of ‘serious’ music.” As the journal developed, we were able to find writers to cover a wide range of ‘contemporary musics’: fields as different (many would say antithetical) as the territories often labelled Experimental Music and

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Published

1971

Language

EN

Category

magazine