The British Folk Revival is the very first historical and theoretical work to consider the post-war folk revival in Britain from a popular music studies perspec

In Roots of the Revival: American and British Folk Music in the 1950s, Ronald D. Cohen and Rachel Clare Donaldson present a transatlantic history of folk's midc

In the 1960s and 1970s, a number of British musicians rediscovered traditional folk ballads, fusing the old melodies with rock, jazz, and blues styles to create

A detailed study of the social factors that have given coherence and an enduring identity to the British "folk revival" since the 1960s. The author is a social

Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival is the first book to explore in depth the lives and song traditions of two of the most influential English tradi