Navigation

Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World

Author: Bragg, Billy

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 448

Pub Date: 05/04/2018

Publisher: FABER AND FABER LTD

ISBN: 9780571327751

Availability: Out of Stock

Price-Match is available in-store only for recommended titles in CCCU module handbooks

Be the first to review this product

Quick overview 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.

RRP: £10.99

Our Price: £9.89

Qty:

Product description

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.

Additional information