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The book consequently presents only Maitland's version of the song, which became the origin of all folk revival versions. [ 1 ] The song was first brought into the folk revival by Ewan MacColl , who learned it from Doerflinger's book and recorded it on the album A Sailor's Garland, produced by American folklorist Kenny Goldstein for the ...
Unlike the first revival, which wholly concerned itself with traditional music, the second revival was a part of the birth of non-traditional contemporary folk music. Like the American revival, it was often overtly left wing in its politics, and the leading figures, the Salford-born Ewan MacColl and A. L. Lloyd, were both involved in trade ...
The commercially oriented folk-music revival as it existed in coffee houses, concert halls, radio, and TV was predominantly an English-language phenomenon, though many of the major pop-folk groups, such as the Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Chad Mitchell Trio, The Limeliters, The Brothers Four, The Highwaymen, and others, featured ...
The name of the project comes from the 1993 book, The Imagined Village, by Georgina Boyes. [1] The project started in 2004, and led to the release of an eponymous album in 2007 by a collective of artists on Real World Records. [2] Some of the tracks on it are modern re-interpretations of traditional folk songs.
In 1993 Georgina Boyes produced her book The Imagined Village – Culture, ideology and the English Folk Revival, [10] which critiqued the Victorian and Edwardian folk song revival for having invented a culturally anachronistic rural community – "The Folk" - and making unrepresentative collections of songs to support the idea.
Albert Lancaster Lloyd (29 February 1908 – 29 September 1982), [1] usually known as A. L. Lloyd or Bert Lloyd, was an English folk singer and collector of folk songs, and as such was a key figure in the British folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s. While Lloyd is most widely known for his work with British folk music, he had a keen interest in ...
The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was one of the musicians who participated in the first English Folk Song revival, as well as using folk song tunes in his compositions. He collected his first song, Bushes and Briars , from Mr Charles Pottipher, a seventy-year-old labourer from Ingrave, Essex in 1903, and went on to collect over 800 songs, as ...
"All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough" (Roud 346) [1] or The Ploughman's Song is an English folk song about the working life of horsemen on an English farm in the days before petrol-driven machinery. Variants have been collected from many traditional singers - Cecil Sharp observed that "almost every singer knows it: the bad singer