I find Fakelore a tad overdone in places but its heart is in the right place; even as a Marxist I find the Marxism a little heavy handed. The Imagined Village on the other hand just tells it like it is, pure and simple as a history of a movement. Then there's Folk by Bob Pegg, which I'm going to have to read again, but his Riots & Riots was a bit of an epiphany for me when I first read it.