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Roots, Radicals And Rockers: How Skiffle Changed The World
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 5000 to 250000 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 washboardAgainst 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
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
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