Roots. Radicals And Rockers: How Skiffle Changed The World - Billy Bragg - Books - FABER & FABER - 9780571327744 - June 1, 2017
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Roots. Radicals And Rockers: How Skiffle Changed The World Main edition

Billy Bragg

Roots. Radicals And Rockers: How Skiffle Changed The World Main edition

Emerging from the jazz clubs of the early '50s, 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.


448 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released Storbritannien, June 1, 2017
ISBN13 9780571327744
Publishers FABER & FABER 9780571327744
Pages 448
Dimensions 160 × 238 × 39 mm   ·   703 g
Language English  

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