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. 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.
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