Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music

by Rob Young

Book Overview

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title

In the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave musicians looked back instead, trying to recover the lost treasures of English roots music and update them for the new age. The records of Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, and Nick Drake are known as "folk rock" today, but Rob Young's epic, electrifying book makes clear that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865478562
• ISBN13: 9780865478565
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"