{"product_id":"electric-eden","title":"Electric Eden","description":"Review  An incredible trip . . . both educative and gripping. -- Allan Jones ― Uncut  A thoroughly enjoyable read and likely to remain the best-written overview for a long time. -- Michel Faber ― Guardian 'Book of the Week'  A stunning achievement. -- Simon Reynolds  Thoroughly researched and well-written, this book uncovers the secret history of British popular music in the sixties and beyond. Highly recommended.' -- Lee Ranaldo  Perfectly timed, perfectly pitched . . . wide-ranging, insightful, authoritative, thoroughly entertaining. ― New Statesman  A comprehensive and absorbing exploration of Britain's folk music, which serves, too, as a robust defence of the genre . . . An impassioned and infectious rallying cry of a book. -- Dan Cairns ― Sunday Times  Product Description  A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.  Rob Young's Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music is a seminal book on British music and cultural heritage, that spans the visionary classical and folk tradition from the nineteenth-century to the present day.  'A thoroughly enjoyable read and likely to remain the best-written overview for a long time.' GUARDIAN  'A perfectly timed, perfectly pitched alternative history of English folk music . . . wide-ranging, insightful, authoritative, thoroughly entertaining.' NEW STATESMAN  'A stunning achievement.' SIMON REYNOLDS  'A masterpiece.' CAUGHT BY THE RIVER 'Excellent . . . blissfully quotable.' NEW YORK TIMES 'An authoritative account.' THE TIMES 'Consistently absorbing.' INDEPENDENT 'An impassioned and infectious rallying cry of a book.' SUNDAY TIMES  In this groundbreaking survey of more than a century of music making in the British Isles, Rob Young investigates how the idea of folk has been handed down and transformed by successive generations - song collectors, composers, Marxist revivalists, folk-rockers, psychedelic voyagers, free festival-goers, experimental pop stars and electronic innovators.  In a sweeping panorama of Albion's soundscape that takes in the pioneer spirit of Cecil Sharp; the pastoral classicism of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Peter Warlock; the industrial folk revival of Ewan MacColl and A. L. Lloyd; the folk-rock of Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, Shirley Collins, John Martyn and Pentangle; the bucolic psychedelia of The Incredible String Band, The Beatles and Pink Floyd; the acid folk of Comus, Forest, Mr Fox and Trees; The Wicker Man and occult folklore; the early Glastonbury and Stonehenge festivals; and the visionary pop of Kate Bush, Julian Cope and Talk Talk, Electric Eden maps out a native British musical voice that reflects the complex relationships between town and country, progress and nostalgia, radicalism and conservatism.  An attempt to isolate the 'Britishness' of British music - a wild combination of pagan echoes, spiritual quest, imaginative time-travel, pastoral innocence and electrified creativity - Electric Eden will be treasured by anyone interested in the tangled story of Britain's folk music and Arcadian dreams.  'A treat.' TIME OUT 'Young is a fine writer.' MOJO 'Young's immense narrative is both educative and gripping.' UNCUT 'A multitudinous, fascinating and beautifully written account.' TLS  Book Description  A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.  From the Back Cover  Rob Young investigates how the idea of folk has been handed down and transformed by successive generations - song collectors, composers, Marxist revivalists, folk-rockers, psychedelic voyagers, free festival-goers, experimental pop stars and electronic innovators. In a sweeping panorama of Albion's soundscape that takes in the pioneer spirit of Cecil Sharp; the pastoral classicism of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Peter Warlock; the industrial folk rev","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53250086142339,"sku":"9780571349654N","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/af102ca1-a635-406b-8bd8-57131584601e.jpg?v=1727725012","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/electric-eden","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}