Electric Eden - Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music

Informationen zum Autor Rob Young has worked at The Wire magazine since 1993, including five years as editor. He is the author of Rough Trade and Warp , and the editor of Undercurrents: The Hidden Wiring of Modern Music and The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music . He has contributed to publications including Uncut , the Guardian , Sight & Sound , Frieze and Art Review . He lives in London. Klappentext 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. 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Rob Young
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2011
• EAN: 9780571237531
• ISBN: 978-0-571-23753-1
• No. of pages: 672
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / History & Criticism, Folk & traditional music, Traditional & folk music