Roots, radicals and rockers : how skiffle changed the world
Bragg, Billy2018
Book
'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.
Main title:
Roots, radicals and rockers : how skiffle changed the world / Billy Bragg.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2018.
Collation:
xv, 431 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2017.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780571327751 (pbk)0571327753 (pbk)
Dewey class:
781.64 BRA781.64
LC class:
ML3536
Language:
English
BRN:
319521