Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title In the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward...
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Author: Rob Young
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Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music by Young, Rob

Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music

€37,29

Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music

€37,29
Author: Rob Young
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title

In the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave musicians looked back instead, trying to recover the lost treasures of English roots music and update them for the new age. The records of Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, and Nick Drake are known as "folk rock" today, but Rob Young's epic, electrifying book makes clear that those musicians led a decades-long quest to recover English music-and with it, the ancient ardor for mysticism and paganism, for craftsmanship and communal living.

It is a commonplace that rock and R&B came out of the folk and blues revivals of the early 1960s, and Young shows, through enchanting storytelling and brilliant commentary, that a similar revival in England inspired the Beatles and Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Traffic, Kate Bush and Talk Talk. Folklorists notated old songs and dances. Marxists put folk music forward as the true voice of the people. Composers like Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams devised rich neo-traditional pageantry. Today, the pioneers of the "acid folk" movement see this music as a model for their own.


Electric Eden is that rare book which has something truly new to say about popular music, and like Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces, it uses music to connect the dots in a thrilling story of art and society, of tradition and wild, idiosyncratic creativity.



Author: Rob Young
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 05/10/2011
Pages: 674
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780865478565


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/21/2011
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2011
Library Journal 03/15/2011 pg. 120
Booklist 04/15/2011 pg. 12
New York Times Book Review 06/05/2011 pg. 18
New York Times Book Review 06/12/2011 pg. 30
New Yorker (The) 07/11/2011 pg. 95
Kirkus Best Books 12/01/2011 pg. 2207

About the Author

Rob Young, who was the editor of The Wire, the leading British music magazine, is now an editor at large there. He lives in London.




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