The Ballad of Britain

How Music Captured the Soul of a Nation

By: Will Hodgkinson

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Paperback | 3 August 2009

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In 1903, Victorian composer Cecil Sharp began a decade-long journey to collect folk songs that captured the spirit of Great Britain. A century later, writer, presenter and journalist Will Hodgkinson sets out on a similar journey

. He looks at the unique relationship the British have with music, and tries to understand how the country has represented itself through song. Will goes from the heart of the mainstream music scenes to the very fringes as part of his quest, visiting in turn remote musical heartlands and great urban musical cities. An engaging blend of humour and musical scholarship, 'the British Sound' is at once a portrait of modern Britain and an adventure into lyric and melody. It is the most interesting, funny and original travel book for years, capturing the music that moves modern Britain.

Industry Reviews

'The Ballad of Britain is an enthusiast's jaunt, frothy armchair ethnomusicology, but Hodgkinson understands what very few music writers seem to: simply that music is about flesh and blood.' The Times

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