- Folk music, History and criticism, Folk-rock music, History
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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Nostalgic, warm, cool and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Rob Young
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 664
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571237524
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