{"product_id":"roots-radicals-and-rockers-how-skiffle-changed-the-world-1","title":"Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eRough Trade Books of the Year 2017 No: 3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/roughtrade.com\/gb\/artist\/billy-bragg\"\u003eBilly Bragg\u003c\/a\u003e, the bard of Barking, returns with\u003ci\u003e Roots, Radicals \u0026amp; Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World,\u003c\/i\u003e the first book to explore this phenomenon in depth - a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come to know it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a story of jazz pilgrims and blues blowers, Teddy Boys and beatnik girls, coffee-bar bohemians and refugees from the McCarthyite witch-hunts. Billy traces how the guitar came to the forefront of music in the UK and led directly to the British Invasion of the US charts in the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmerging from the trad-jazz clubs of the early '50s, skiffle was adopted by kids who growing up during the dreary, post-war rationing years. These were Britain's first teenagers, looking for a music of their own in a pop culture dominated by crooners and mediated by a stuffy BBC. Lonnie Donegan hit the charts in 1956 with a version of 'Rock Island Line' and soon sales of guitars rocketed from 5,000 to 250,000 a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike punk rock that would flourish two decades later, skiffle was a do-it-yourself music. All you needed were three guitar chords and you could form a group, with mates playing tea-chest bass and washboard as a rhythm section\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of how the first generation of British teenagers changed our pop music from being jazz-based to guitar-led.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":50531042820427,"sku":"1004239","price":7.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/06cda96f-8659-4d6c-b41d-de531d4de0da_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728091042","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/roots-radicals-and-rockers-how-skiffle-changed-the-world-1","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}