Review Essay: "The Imagined Village," by Georgina Boyes

Stanfield reviews and critically analyzes "The Imagined Village," by Georgina Boyes (No Masters Cooperative, 2010). The book is an examination of the restoration of English vernacular performance arts, including morris dance, from the time of the first revival during the Edwardian era to the beginning of the second revival in the 1950s. Stanfield also says the book is a record of "inspired visionaries who set out to preserve England's cultural heritage under the weight of their own biases, partly formed by class, the merrie England movement, rational recreation, music nationalism, Freudianism, and a host of other 'isms'".