Legacies of Ewan MacColl / edited by Allan F. Moore and Giovanni Vacca.

Includes bibliographical references.

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 Forewor.

Cover; 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 MacColl9 MacColl Singing; 10 MacColl in Italy; Bibliography; Index

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