Roots, Radicals and Rockers
How Skiffle Changed the World
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZERoots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is the first book to explore this phenomenon in depth - 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. 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, skiffl…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-571-32776-8
- EAN: 9780571327768
- Produktnummer: 23011893
- Verlag: Bonnier Publishing Fiction
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 528 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'080 KB
- Auflage: Main
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Billy Bragg
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