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Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World by Billy Bragg (Hardback, 2017)

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Roots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is the first book to explore this phemen in depth - a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come to kw it. 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. Billy traces how the guitar came to the forefront of music in the UK and led directly to the British Invasion of the US charts in the 1960s. Emerging from the trad-jazz clubs of the early '50s, skiffle was adopted by kids who growing up during the dreary, post-war rationing years. These were Britain's first teenagers, looking for a music of their own in a pop culture dominated by crooners and mediated by a stuffy BBC. Lonnie Donegan hit the charts in 1956 with a version of 'Rock Island Line' and soon sales of guitars rocketed from 5,000 to 250,000 a year. Like punk rock that would flourish two decades later, skiffle was a do-it-yourself music. All you needed were three guitar chords and you could form a group, with mates playing tea-chest bass and washboard as a rhythm section.
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Stephen William Billy Bragg is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, with lyrics that mostly span political or romantic themes. Billy's music is heavily centred on bringing about change and getting the younger generation involved in activist causes. For the entirety of Bragg's 30-year-plus recording career he has been involved with grassroots political movements, and this is often reflected in his lyrics. Bragg said in an interview: I don't mind being labelled a political songwriter. The thing that troubles me is being dismissed as a political songwriter.

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Author(s)
Billy Bragg
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Date of Publication
01/06/2017
Language
English
Format
Hardback
ISBN-10
0571327745
ISBN-13
9780571327744
Subject
Music & Dance
eBay Product ID (ePID)
235352587

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Place of Publication
London
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Imprint
Faber & Faber

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715 g
Width
153 mm
Height
234 mm
Spine
31 mm

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