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| ELECTRIC EDEN |
| by YOUNG, ROB |
Categories:
Music
 Folk Music
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ISBN: 0571237533
- ISBN 13: 9780571237531 |
| AAB Internal Code: 5833335 |
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Pubblication year: 2011
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| Arrival date: 20/5/2013 |
| Published by: Faber And Faber (7564) |
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Rob Young investigates how the idea of folk has been handed down and transformed by successive generations - song collectors, composers, Marxist revivalists, folk-rockers, psychedelic voyagers, free festival-goers, experimental pop stars and electronic innovators. In a sweeping panorama of Albion's soundscape that takes in the pioneer spirit of Cecil Sharp; the pastoral classicism of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Peter Warlock; the industrial folk revival of Ewan MacColl and A. L. Lloyd; the folk-rock of Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, Shirley Collins, John Martyn and Pentangle; the bucolic psychedelia of The Incredible String Band, The Beatles and Pink Floyd; the acid folk of Comus, Forest, Mr Fox and Trees; 'The Wicker Man' and occult folklore; the early Glastonbury and Stonehenge festivals; and the visionary pop of Kate Bush, Julian Cope and Talk Talk, "Electric Eden" maps out a native British musical voice that reflects the complex relationships between town and country, progress and nostalgia, radicalism and conservatism.; An attempt to isolate the 'Britishness' of British music - a wild combination of pagan echoes, spiritual quest, imaginative time-travel, pastoral innocence and electrified creativity - "Electric Eden" will be treasured by anyone interested in the tangled story of Britain's folk music and Arcadian dreams. |
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