Roots Radicals and Rockers : How Skiffle Changed the World book

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

Emerging from the jazz clubs of the early 1950s, 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.
Teenagers were looking for a music of their own in a culture dominated by crooners and mediated by a stuffy BBC.
Against a backdrop of Cold War politics, rock and roll riots and a newly assertive working-class youth, Roots Radicals and Rockers : How Skiffle Changed the World charts - for the first time in depth - the history, impact and legacy of a movement that sparked a revolution and shaped music.