2nd Edition

The British Folk Revival

By Michael Brocken Copyright 2023
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

Almost 20 years ago Michael Brocken created from his doctoral research, what became both a seminal and contested volume concerning the social mores surrounding the British Folk Revival up to that point in time: The British Folk Revival 1944–2002 . In this long-overdue second edition he revisits not only his own research, but also that of others from the 1990s and early 21st century. He then... Read more

1 The inherent morphology of folklore and folk song: a ‘changing same’

2 A selective consideration of folk literature in relation to the first edition of The British Folk Revival

3 The aesthetics and practicalities of revivalism: a conservative-socialist-recorded sound ‘revolution’?

4 Folk, blues and self-directed learning with the post-WWII Britain media

5 The business of folk

6 New folk media in the social sphere

7 Gendered folk mythologies

8 The folk built environment and the development of ‘thirdspace’

Biography

Michael Brocken is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is a freelance researcher, lecturer, writer and broadcaster and lives in Prestatyn, North Wales. Mike currently presents Folkscene on BBC Radio Merseyside: the longest running specialist music radio show in British broadcasting history.