e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
More Content
More by this author
Bragg, Billy.
Subjects
Skiffle -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.
Popular music -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Bragg, Billy.
by title:
Roots, radicals and ...
by call number:
781.640941 B813r
Search the Web
Bragg, Billy.
Skiffle -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.
Popular music -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.
MARC Display
Roots, radicals and rockers : how
skiffle
changed the world / Billy Bragg.
by
Bragg, Billy.
Faber & Faber, 2017.
Call #:
781.640941 B813r
Subjects
Skiffle
--
Great
Britain
--
History
and
criticism
.
Popular music
--
Great
Britain
--
History
and
criticism
.
ISBN:
9780571327744 (hc.)
Alternate title:
How
skiffle
changed the world
Description:
xv, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-414) and index.
Contents:
The Rock Island Line
--
Ration book jazz
--
Blues in brass
--
Pilgrimage to New Orleans
--
Back to basics
--
What kind of music are they playing?
--
Stumbling towards a new dawn
--
The new Edwardians
--
The highbrow of swing
--
Will TV kill the British Sunday?
--
Sunshine on Soho
--
Red scare refugees
--
Skiffle
artificial
--
The adventures of an Irish hillbilly
--
Youth in revolt
--
The people's music
--
Here's three chords
--
Lonnie opens the door
--
Going so fast
--
This'll make you
skiffle
--
Country, bluegrass, and blues
--
Expresso bongo
--
For peace and harmony
--
Skiffle
on the skids
--
Maximum R & B
--
The British are coming.
Summary:
"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. 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 guitar 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 the
history
, impact and legacy of
Britain
's original pop movement. 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. Billy Bragg is an English singer, songwriter and left-wing activist. He is the author of The Progressive Patriot: a Search for Belonging (2006)"--Provided by publisher.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
781.640941 B813r
Core Collection - Adult
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.