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