Class Act - The Cultural and Political Life of Ewan MacColl (Paperback)

Ewan MacColl is one of the outstanding British singers and songwriters of the mid to late 20th century, and his work has been covered by artists including Roberta Flack, Johnny Cash and the Pogues. He was also a committed political activist. For sixty years he was at the cultural forefront of numerous political struggles, producing plays, songs and radio programmes on subjects ranging from the Spanish Civil War to the Poll Tax. A founder-member of Theatre Workshop, MacColl was the famous company's resident dramatist, and his plays earned the admiration of contemporaries including George Bernard Shaw, Sean O, Casey and Hugh MacDiarmid. MacColl lived an energetic and colourful life. authorisation of his collaborator and widow, Peggy Seeger. It charts MacColl's early years, his involvement in the Communist Party, in radical theatre, his pioneering radio programmes, as well as his extensive work in the British folk-revival. Exhaustively researched and energetically written, this is an illuminating account of a major and controversial twentieth-century political artist.

General

Imprint:	Pluto Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2007
First published:	October 2007
Authors:	Ben Harker
Dimensions:	230 x 150 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-7453-2165-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Folk music Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre Books > Music > Folk music Promotions
LSN:	0-7453-2165-8
Barcode:	9780745321653

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