Roots, radicals and rockers : how skiffle changed the world

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Label

Roots, radicals and rockers : how skiffle changed the world

Title remainder

how skiffle changed the world

Statement of responsibility

Billy Bragg

Creator

• Bragg, Billy

Author

• Bragg, Billy

Subject

• Popular music -- Great Britain -- History
• Skiffle -- Great Britain -- History

Language

eng

Summary

"Emerging from the jazz clubs of the early 1950s, skiffle -- a uniquely British take on American folk and blues -- caused a sensation among a generation of kids who had grown up during the dreary post-war years. These were Britain's first teenagers, looking for a music of their own in a culture dominated by crooners and mediated by a stuffy BBC. Sales of guitars rocketed from 5,000 to 250,000 a year, and -- as with the punk rock that would flourish two decades later -- all you needed to know were three chords to form your own group, with your mates accompanying on tea-chest bass and washboard. Against a backdrop of Cold War politics, rock and roll riots and a newly assertive working-class youth, Billy Bragg charts -- for the first time in depth -- the history, impact and legacy of Britain's original pop movement. It's a story of jazz pilgrims and blues blowers, Teddy Boys and beatnik girls, coffee-bar bohemians and refugees from the McCarthyite witch-hunts, who between them sparked a revolution that shaped pop culture as we have come to know it"--Publisher description

Cataloging source

NLE

Dewey number

781.640941

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

ML3536

LC item number

.B73 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult