Electric Folk
Subtitle: The Changing Face of English Traditional Music
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: December 17, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780195158786
First sentence: Electric folk or folk rock is not just a mere technical combination of acoustic or electric elements-or of folk and rock music.
Description: Britta Sweers chronicles the history of the genre and explores its cultural implications. She characterizes electric folk as both a result of the American folk revival of the early 1960s and a reaction against the dominance of American pop music abroad.