Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music

Paperback. Pub Date :2011-08-01 Pages: 672 Language: English Publisher: Faber & Faber 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 Albions 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 AL 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 ...