Electric Folk: The Changing Face of English Traditional Music

Name: Electric Folk: The Changing Face of English Traditional Music
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780195174786
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by Britta Sweers

Oxford University Press · 2004

Britta Sweers traces the revival in which British musicians of the 1960s and 1970s fused old folk ballads with rock, jazz and blues, a movement often called electric folk.

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Between the 1960s and the 1970s, several British performers went back to traditional folk ballads and gave the old tunes fresh life. They combined them with rock, jazz and blues, producing a sound that came to be called electric folk or British folk rock.

Among the bands in this movement were Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention and Pentangle, and among the solo artists Shirley and Dolly Collins and Richard Thompson. Sweers examines how this scene reshaped English traditional music.

The book suits readers of popular music history and folk studies, and anyone curious about how older songs survive in new forms.

Bibliographic details: published by Oxford University Press, with the ISBN-13 9780195174786.