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Author Brocken, Michael

Title The British Folk Revival 1944?2002
Published Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2007

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages)
Series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
Ashgate popular and folk music series.
Contents Cover; Contents; General Editor's Preface; Preface; 1 The early revivalists; 2 Towards post-war utopianism: the precursors and advent of the second folk revival; 3 Bert Lloyd and Ewan MacColl: a critique of the leading protagonists; 4 Politics and obstinacy; 5 Challenging folk historiography: skiffle as a pop aesthetic; 6 Folk-rock; 7 Rituals of retreat: folk clubs, connoisseurs, hierarchies; 8 What of the folk scene now?; Topic Records Discography; Bibliography; Index
Summary The British Folk Revival is the very first historical and theoretical work to consider the post-war folk revival in Britain from a popular music studies perspective. Michael Brocken charts the revival from its origins in left-wing political ideology through to the convergence of folk and pop during the 1950s and 1960s, and the fragmentation and constriction of the revival since the 1970s. The book will create lively debate among the folk music fraternity and popular music scholars, as well as folklorists and ethnomusicologists
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Subject Folk music -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
Popular music -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
Folk music.
Popular music.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780754681694
0754681696
1351893564
9781351893565