Roots Radicals & Rockers
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‘Roots, Radicals and Rockers’ explores this phenomenon in depth. It is a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come to know 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.
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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.
| Weight | 0.353 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.7 × 12.8 × 2.7 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | xv, 431 |
| Language | English |
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| Dewey | 781.64 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
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