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« on: April 18, 2006, 02:17:38 PM »

Dear all, I've been missing for a while, so I don't know if this topic has been mentioned before. Anyway, I just finished a fine academic book published by Oxford Unifersity Press, "Electric Folk" by german scholar Britta Sweers (http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-517478-X). It's about changing attitudes in british tradizional music and focus on electric (and sometimes jazzy) folk. FC work is obviously often discussed. One chapter is dedicated to a biographical survey of main performers, and it is the less interesting for hard core long time fans, as most of us are likely to be; when the author write as musicologist the discussion goes deep into a passionate analysis of styles and approaches -especially recommended the one about Sandy Denny.

http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-517478-X 

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« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2006, 03:52:00 PM »

Thanks for that Paolo.  Nice to see you again, too.  Fez

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« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2006, 08:53:14 PM »

I have this book, it's a bit heavy in place and clearly academic in it's origins. But it is a decent read.
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« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2006, 09:46:03 PM »

, it's a bit heavy in place and clearly academic in it's origins.

bit like its owner? Wink
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