Electric Eden

unearthing Britain's visionary music

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Rob Young: Electric Eden (2010, Faber and Faber)

664 pages

English language

Published April 4, 2010 by Faber and Faber.

ISBN:
978-0-571-23752-4
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OCLC Number:
501273587

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4 stars (2 reviews)

While ostensibly purporting to be a history of that much derided four-letter word 'folk,' Electric Eden provides a survey of the visionary, topographic and esoteric impulses that have driven the margins of British visionary folk music from Vaughan Williams and Holst to The Incredible String Band, Nick Drake and John Martyn.

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3 stars

I have to say that this was a massive disappointment for me. I wanted it to be one thing, but it was another. Oh well.

It turned out to be a bit too academic, and focused a bit too much on the long term historical antecedents of the music that I wanted to discuss.

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Subjects

  • Folk music
  • History and criticism
  • Folk-rock music
  • History

Places

  • Great Britain