Legacies of Ewan MacColl

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.