Article: Performing Russia: Folk Revival and Russian Identity.(Book review)

Article: This August 22nd, will mark the 100th anniversary of British ...
Sing Out!;  June 22, 2003 ;     405 words ... ... collector Cecil Sharp's first folk song notation. On that date in ... to the regeneration of the Folk Song Society and a general regional folk revival. This year Britain's Folk ... presentations on the theme of English folk song. Houses and villages of ...

Article: `THE FOLK REVIVAL'' GOES BEYOND ITS HISTORY IN ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  April 30, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... book, ``When We Were Good: The Folk Revival,'' were merely a history, its ... follows: In the mid-1930s, a ``folk-song movement'' sprang up in response ... against mass culture, created a folk revival in less ideological, more idealistic ...

Article: The British Folk Revival, 1944-2002.(Book Review)
Notes;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The British Folk Revival, 1944-2002. By Michael ... When We Were Good: The Folk Revival [Cambridge, MA: Harvard ... his work in British folk song, became perhaps its ... institutions to the English folk revival: the English Folk Dance ...

Article: When We Were Good: The Folk Revival.
The Nation;  June 17, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... and endless skyway. If the sixties folk song revival seems a mild, middle-class ... earlier, separate strain making for folk revival in the twentieth century: upper ... Spanish American War, says Cantwell, folk song provided an opportunity to demonstrate ...

Article: Folk revival 'Freak folk' scene discovers U.K. ...
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  November 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... their work. Page took Jansch's version of the traditional folk song "Blackwaterside" to create Led Zeppelin's "Black Mountain ... in the U.S. because of the rock boom that silenced the folk revival that came before it. Unlike Nick Drake, a contemporary on ...

Article: Pivotal figure in the folk revival plays village ...
Bath Chronicle, The;  April 9, 2009 ;     535 words ... ... known and most innovative interpreters of traditional English folk song who has been at the forefront of English folk music for more than three decades. A pivotal figure in the folk revival with an instantly recognisable voice, his own distinctive ...

Article: Versatile Musician Was a Force in Folk Revival
The Washington Post;  August 11, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... number of recordings in the 1950s and 1960s as a member of the folk revival ensemble the New Lost City Ramblers. Mr. Seeger influenced ... his mother, Ruth Crawford Seeger, was a noted composer and folk song collector. Mr. Seeger and his two sisters grew up immersed ...