Electric Folk Book

[Ollie]

I've just found this - http://tiny.cc/6afE8 on evilBay. Never seen it before, never heard of it. Anyone know anything about it?

[davidmjs]

Hmmm, me neither - thanks for the link.... quite a few copies around on ABEbooks and Amazon....

[Philip W]

Not a new book. Published in 2005. There was a thread about it at the time:
http://www.talkawhile.co.uk/yabbse/index.php?topic=16860.0

Worth having, if a little dry and academic for the general reader. Britta Sweers (a very approachable lady, in my experience) intended her book to revise and update The Electric Muse, a more discursive, journalistic study of folk-rock published in the seventies, which is also worth getting hold of if you can find a secondhand copy.

P

[davidmjs]

Not a new book. Published in 2005. There was a thread about it at the time:
http://www.talkawhile.co.uk/yabbse/index.php?topic=16860.0

Worth having, if a little dry and academic for the general reader. Britta Sweers (a very approachable lady, in my experience) intended her book to revise and update The Electric Muse, a more discursive, journalistic study of folk-rock published in the seventies, which is also worth getting hold of if you can find a secondhand copy.

P

Ahhhh, that makes sense...the Electric Muse is a great read....

[Dad Volt]

I've just found this - http://tiny.cc/6afE8 on evilBay. Never seen it before, never heard of it. Anyone know anything about it?

Yep got it, certainly not a casual read but worth picking up if you are interested in that sort of thing

[Paolo]

In my opinion a good book. A scholar work (something I like) whose best parts are sections dedicated to singing styles - demonstrating, for instance, how strong and deep was Sandy's traditional background.

best

Paolo

[Dad Volt]

To give you some idea of value Ollie, I paid £15.99 for mine at Liverpool Uni Bookshop about 3/4 years ago

[steve-n]

To give you some idea of value Ollie, I paid £15.99 for mine at Liverpool Uni Bookshop about 3/4 years ago

Bought mine from Amazon around the same time - still available as of 10 minutes ago.



Electric Folk: The Changing Face of English Traditional Music by Britta Sweers (Paperback - Aug 2004)
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