Books
-
£ 8.49
- Ex Tax: £ 8.49
Roots, Radicals and Rockers : How Skiffle Changed the World
Skiffle - Book - by Billy Bragg
(2017)
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 5,000 to 250,000 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 washboard.
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 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.
You May Also Like
Cassette Culture : T...
Cassette Culture - Book - by John Z. Komurki
£ 14.49 Ex Tax: £ 14.49
Sly and the Family S...
Sly and the Family Stone - Book - by Miles Marshall Lewis
£ 11.99 Ex Tax: £ 11.99
Growing Out of It : ...
Lee Thompson / Madness - Book - by L. Thompson and Ian Snowball
£ 7.99 £ 16.99 Ex Tax: £ 7.99
Side by Side : Selec...
Soft Machine / Robert Wyatt - Book - by Robert Wyatt
£ 19.49 Ex Tax: £ 19.49
Pet Shop Boys, Liter...
Pet Shop Boys - Book - by Chris Heath
£ 15.99 Ex Tax: £ 15.99
Culture from the Slu...
Punk Rock in East and West Germany - Book - by Jeff Hayton
£ 86.99 Ex Tax: £ 86.99
Kalifornia Kool : Ph...
San Francisco Punk - Photo Book - Photos by Ruby Ray
£ 33.99 Ex Tax: £ 33.99
