Postwar Politics, Society and the Folk Revival in England, 1945-65
- Author: Mitchell, Julia
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Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- 1. 'Folk Song without Folk'?: An Introduction to Folk Revivalism in Twentieth-Century England
- 2. The Pub and the Beeb: Structural Foundations of the English Folk Revival
- 3. 'Its Music Was Folk': Folk Revivalism and Socialist Politics in Postwar England
- 4. A Dialectic of Class and Region: Folk Music in the 'Affluent Society'
- 5. 'Accent Speaks Louder than Words': Imagining Regional and National Communities through Folk Music
- 6. Folk Music and Cultural Exchange: The 'Shiny Barbarism' of Americanisation
- 7. 'With Bob on Our Side': Folk Music, the Culture Industry and the Problem of Commercial Success Bibliography Index