Legacies of Ewan MacColl : The Last Interview.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Photos -- List of Music Examples -- Notes on Contributors -- General Editors' Preface -- Foreword by Peggy Seeger -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 On Interviewing Ewan MacColl as a Young Student: The Interviews -- 2 The First Interview (London, 23 June 1987) -- 3 The Second Interview (London, August 1988): Part I: What is Folk Music? -- 4 The Second Interview, Part II: The Ballad -- Travelling People -- 5 The Second Interview, Part III: Folk Culture and Popular Culture -- 6 The Second Interview, Part IV: Scotland! -- 7 MacColl and the English Folk Revival -- 8 Form and Content: The Irreconcilable Contradiction in the Song-writing of Ewan MacColl -- 9 MacColl Singing -- 10 MacColl in Italy -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book contributes significantly to the debate surrounding the importance of Ewan MacColl to the English folk revival. MacColl gave two extended interviews with co-editor Giovanni Vacca in 1987 and 1988 and these provide the impetus for a re-examination of his methods, his politics and his aesthetic aims. Great emphasis is placed on the importance of seeing MacColl as not only a British, but a European folk activist, through discussion of his hitherto barely known work in Italy, enabling a re-contextualization of his work within a broader European context. Peggy Seeger contributes a Foreword to the collection.

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