| Description |
1 online resource (294 pages) |
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Ashgate popular and folk music series |
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Ashgate popular and folk music series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Photos; List of Music Examples; Notes on Contributors; General Editors' Preface; Foreword by Peggy Seeger; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 On Interviewing Ewan MacColl as a Young Student: The Interviews; 2 The First Interview (London, 23 June 1987); 3 The Second Interview (London, August 1988): Part I: What is Folk Music?; 4 The Second Interview, Part II: The Ballad; Travelling People; 5 The Second Interview, Part III: Folk Culture and Popular Culture; 6 The Second Interview, Part IV: Scotland!; 7 MacColl and the English Folk Revival |
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8 Form and Content: The Irreconcilable Contradiction in the Song-writing of Ewan MacColl9 MacColl Singing; 10 MacColl in Italy; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book contributes significantly to the debate surrounding the importance of Ewan MacColl to the English folk revival. MacColl gave two extended interviews with co-editor Giovanni Vacca in 1987 and 1988 and these provide the impetus for a re-examination of his methods, his politics and his aesthetic aims. Great emphasis is placed on the importance of seeing MacColl as not only a British, but a European folk activist, through discussion of his hitherto barely known work in Italy, enabling a re-contextualization of his work within a broader European context. Peggy Seeger contributes a Forewor |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
MacColl, Ewan -- Interviews
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| SUBJECT |
MacColl, Ewan fast |
| Subject |
Folk singers -- England -- Interviews
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Folk music -- History and criticism
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
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MUSIC -- Lyrics.
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
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Folk music
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Folk singers
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Interviews
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Moore, Allan F., editor.
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Vacca, Giovanni, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781409424314 |
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1409424316 |
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1322571678 |
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9781322571676 |
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1409424308 |
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9781409424307 |
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9781472402141 |
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1472402146 |
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1317106458 |
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9781317106456 |
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