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    Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World

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    ISBN: 9780571327751
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    AuthorBragg, Billy
    Pub Date05/04/2018
    BindingPaperback
    Pages448
    Publisher: FABER AND FABER LTD
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    A Rough Trade, Mojo and FT Book of the Year LONGLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 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.

    A Rough Trade, Mojo and FT Book of the Year
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE

    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. Teenagers were looking for a music of their own in a culture dominated by crooners and mediated by a stuffy BBC. 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 a movement that sparked a revolution and shaped pop culture as we have come to know it.