I want to take a slight detour to talk about socialism and folk music. If you've ever Googled "industrial music," or especially if you've done an academic database search for the term, you find a lot of material on folk music. The artists who came up were familiar—Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Alan Lomax—but I had... Continue Reading →
Folk Revivals in Britain
We left off before the holidays with some background on how medieval fantasy suddenly became mainstream in the '60s. There were also some other semi unintentional mirrorings of the values of the Victorian medieval revivals, where a previously fringe elements advocating for pre-industrial communal lifestyles also became more mainstream. With these cultural threads established, let's... Continue Reading →