Postwar Politics, Society and the Folk Revival in England, 1945-65
Author:   Dr. Julia Mitchell
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pages:   208
Publication Date:   19 September 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Dr. Julia Mitchell
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.466kg
ISBN:  

9781350071216


ISBN 10:   1350071218
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   19 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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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

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Julia Mitchell's book plays a lively, inspiring and novel tune, stringing together popular music, the peace movement, the BBC, industry, politics and much more. Her book strikes a chord with debates about transatlantic and national cultures and local traditions. Mitchell's refrain - that folk music matters to post-war British history - is an important intervention and one historians will want and need to listen to. * Lawrence Black, Professor of Modern History, University of York, UK * Julia Mitchell's new book provides a lively and informative history of the English folk revival, while also bringing a fresh and illuminating perspective to established debates about the politics of class, deindustrialisation, affluence and nostalgia. It is an assured account, which opens a series of profound and provocative questions about the interaction between different forms of identity, authenticity and popular culture in postwar Britain. * Emily Robinson, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Sussex, UK *


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Julia Mitchell is Teacher and Academic Guidance Counsellor at Luther College, High School in Regina, Canada. She holds a PhD in History from University College London, UK.

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