Electric Eden - Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music (Young Rob)(Paperback)

Rob Young''s Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain''s Visionary Music is a seminal book on British music and cultural heritage, that spans the visionary classical and folk tradition from the nineteenth-century to the present day. ''A thoroughly enjoyable read and likely to remain the best-written overview for a long time.''GUARDIAN''A perfectly timed, perfectly pitched alternative history of English folk music . . . wide-ranging, insightful, authoritative, thoroughly entertaining.''NEW STATESMAN''A stunning achievement.''SIMON REYNOLDS''A masterpiece.'' CAUGHT BY THE RIVER''Excellent . . . blissfully quotable.'' NEW YORK TIMES''An authoritative account.'' THE TIMES''Consistently absorbing.'' INDEPENDENT''An impassioned and infectious rallying cry of a book.'' SUNDAY TIMESIn this groundbreaking survey of more than a century of music making in the British Isles, 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
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