Research Catalog

Title

Electric Eden : unearthing Britain's visionary music / Rob Young.

Author

Young, Rob, 1968-

Publication

New York : Faber and Faber, 2011.

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Details

Description

viii, 664 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

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. Young shows, through enchanting storytelling and brilliant commentary, that this revival in England inspired the Beatles and Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Traffic, Kate Bush and Talk Talk.

Subject

Folk music > Great Britain > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 609-631), discography (p. 632-644), and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The silver chain -- Music from Neverland -- The inward exodus -- An orgy on the green -- The island spell -- The iron muse -- Electric Eden -- Songs for swingin' survivors -- Variations on a theme of Albion -- Air -- Earth -- Orpheus in the undergrowth -- Water -- Fire -- A collection of antiques and curios -- We put our magick on you -- The million-volt circus -- Paradise enclosed -- The end of the rainbow -- Rocket Cottage -- Poly-Albion -- Gone to Earth -- Toward the unknown region.

ISBN

• 9780865478565 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0865478562 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011001987

OCLC

676728711

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library