Roots, radicals and rockers : how skiffle changed the world
Bragg, Billy2017
Book
'Roots, Radicals and Rockers' explores this phenomenon in depth. It is a 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.
Main title:
Roots, radicals and rockers : how skiffle changed the world / Billy Bragg.
Author:
Bragg, Billy, author
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2017.
Collation:
xv, 431 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780571327744 (hbk)9780571327768 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
781.6'4
Language:
English
BRN:
99490