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 Youngs epic; electrifying book makes clear that those musicians led a decades-long quest to recover English music-and with it; the ancient ardor for mysticism and paganism; for craftsmanship and communal living.It is a commonplace that rock and RB came out of the folk and blues revivals of the early 1960s; and Young shows; through enchanting storytelling and brilliant commentary; that a similar revival in England inspired the Beatles and Pink Floyd; Led Zeppelin and Traffic; Kate Bush and Talk Talk. Folklorists notated old songs and dances. Marxists put folk music forward as the true voice of the people. Composers like Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams devised rich neo-traditional pageantry. Today; the pioneers of the "acid folk" movement see this music as a model for their own.Electric Eden is that rare book which has something truly new to say about popular music; and like Greil Marcuss Lipstick Traces; it uses music to connect the dots in a thrilling story of art and society; of tradition and wild; idiosyncratic creativity.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Stuck In the 20th CenturyBy TexOverall. a good book but needs to be updated to include considerations and suggestions for digital photography and the internet. As currently written. it is exclusively oriented towards the world of film photography and mailing hard copy prints or 35 mm slides. That detracts from the value of the book.22 of 22 people found the following review helpful. Business tips from the Photo Biz ExpertBy Lorelle VanFossenThe nature photography market is one that is extremely diverse. Nature images are used on everything from printed stationery in the form of note cards and stationary to photographs used as advertising painted on a commerical airplanes tail. They are used as backgrounds to sell commercial products and used in text books for teaching about the environment and nature.With such a diverse market. Jim Zukerman tackles the marketing of nature images with a clarity and skill - you feel like you are sitting in his living room having a good chat. The book is easy to read and gives the reader a good foundation on how the business works. The tips are excellent for putting together promotional packages and guidelines for selling your work. The images included with the text show how different pictures work for different markets. too.The photographs in the book are inspiration enough for any photographer. motivating them to go out and get the same quality. But the points of how the business works and what does work and what doesnt. from the editorial to commerical markets. is fantastic. It should be on every nature photographers shelf - for the pictures or the information! A great resource.13 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Great inspirationBy JPThis book really helps with fine tuning your photo techniques by exploring more interesting compositions of the same subject. It touches on lighting. filters and techniques breifly and goes into more depth on marketing your images. This is a great book for someone who has been taking pictures for awhile and is looking to improve their photography and possibly start submitting photos for print. Highly recommend this book to those intermediate to advanced amatures looking to break into the world of proffessional photography. or maybe just dabble in it a little. Great book
