Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World by Billy Bragg

Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World

Billy Bragg

464 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history music reflective fast-paced
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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, l...

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