Transforming folk: Innovation and tradition in English folk-rock music

English folk-rock, a former progressive rock music style, remains a stimulus for further change in folk music and has enabled English folk-rock to become regarded as popular music by a new audience with diverse musical tastes. From musicological and historical perspectives, this book maintains that folk music performance continues to be influenced by rock and other popular music styles. From a cultural studies perspective, this book also demonstrates how the popularity of folk music presented at world music festivals has stimulated significant growth in folk music audiences since the mid-1990s and consequently the UK is experiencing a new phase of revivalism - the third folk revival.The book contains contributions from Martin Carthy (The Imagined Village) , Simon Nicol (Fairport Convention) , Ashley Hutchings (The Albion Band) , Gerry Conway (Fairport Convention) and Rick Kemp (Steeleye Span) .