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In July of 1968, Vashti Bunyan and Robert Lewis set out on a journey. They travelled in an old Gypsy van pulled by a horse named Bess, their ultimate destination a proposed artist colony on three remote Scottish islands newly purchased by their friend Donovan, the Scottish singer of “Mellow Yellow” fame. With a fresh coat of green paint on the van, Bunyan and Lewis expected to find willing followers in each town, lured by their songs and ideals to join them on their “grand tour of Britain.” But the locals were less receptive than hoped, and the plans for the artist colony had been scrapped by the time they arrived. The determined pair ended up purchasing a cottage on the nearby island of Berneray, where they made their attempt at pastoral bliss. They stayed for over a year, by the end of which time Lewis had left and Bunyan had recorded an album, Just Another Diamond Day, that would become a classic of British folk.

The tale of Bunyan and Lewis’s trek opens Electric Eden, Rob Young’s survey of what he terms “Britain’s visionary music.” Though the ’60s form the book’s main focus, Young traces the roots of folk revival movements back to the late 19th century, when utopian novelist and social reformer William Morris began advocating for a return to feudal simplicity, and budding musicologists Cecil Sharp and Percy Grainger set out to record the music of English peasants. From its inception, the Victorian movement struggled with issues that would persist over the next century, including questions of authenticity, the conflict of liberal and conservative values, and uncertainty over what exactly is meant by terms like “folk” and “British.”

The question of British identity took on increased significance in the 1950s and ’60s, a time when, faced with an influx of American rock, blues, and pop music, it seemed the could only hope to produce a cut-rate imitation of those styles. Young’s account reveals the surprising amount of overlap that occurred. Key American figures like Pete Seeger spent time in London and exerted their influence on the London folk scene, while their British counterparts travelled in Appalachia collecting songs. Much as Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music guided the movement in Greenwich Village, denizens of London’s folk clubs were working with—and often struggling against—a canon of songs passed down from Victorian song collectors.

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