248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2003. This work considers the post-war folk revival in Britain from a popular music studies perspective. Michael Brocken provides a historical narrative of the folk revival from the 1940s up until the 1990s, beginning with the emergence of the revival from within and around the left-wing movements of the 1940s and 1950s. Key figures and organizations such as the... Read more
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?
Biography
Michael Brocken
