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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787011403321

Titolo

Legacies of Ewan MacColl : the last interview / / edited by Allan F. Moore and Giovanni Vacca

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-317-10644-X

1-315-59196-0

1-317-10645-8

1-4094-2431-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Collana

Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series

Disciplina

782.42162/210092

Soggetti

Folk singers - England

Folk music - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Photos; List of Music Examples; Notes on Contributors; General Editors' Preface; Foreword by Peggy Seeger; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 On Interviewing Ewan MacColl as a Young Student: The Interviews; 2 The First Interview (London, 23 June 1987); 3 The Second Interview (London, August 1988): Part I: What is Folk Music?; 4 The Second Interview, Part II: The Ballad;  Travelling People; 5 The Second Interview, Part III: Folk Culture and Popular Culture; 6 The Second Interview, Part IV: Scotland!; 7 MacColl and the English Folk Revival

8 Form and Content: The Irreconcilable Contradiction in the Song-writing of Ewan MacColl9 MacColl Singing; 10 MacColl in Italy; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book contributes significantly to the debate surrounding the importance of Ewan MacColl to the English folk revival. MacColl gave two extended interviews with co-editor Giovanni Vacca in 1987 and 1988 and these provide the impetus for a re-examination of his methods, his politics and his aesthetic aims. Great emphasis is placed on the importance of seeing MacColl as not only a British, but a



European folk activist, through discussion of his hitherto barely known work in Italy, enabling a re-contextualization of his work within a broader European context. Peggy Seeger contributes a Forewor