Electric folk : the changing face of English traditional music /

Electric Folk - Revival and Transformation of English Traditional Music chronicles the history of the genre and explores its cultural implications. It characterizes electric folk as both a result of the American folk revival of the early 1960s and a reaction against the dominance of American pop mus...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sweers, Britta, 1969-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Approaching electric folk : a history of music revivals, fusions, and ideologies
  • A question of definition : traditional and popular music
  • The performers and groups : individual biographies
  • The electric folk scene : a sociocultural portrayal
  • The music : a general overview
  • Individual musical approaches
  • Musical ghosts that becomes means to a new identity
  • Modern revival and fusion processes
  • Postlude 2003.