Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World, (Hardcover)

from Carrie88

An extensive look at '50s skiffle music in England, which was a unique style that grew from American jazz and folk music. This book includes a very interesting part of history that I had not heard ...

from mabith

This was quite a good read for a subject I'm only partly interested in. I never had much exposure to skiffle, but music history tends to be interesting and blues music has had SUCH wide ripples but...

from waltzmn

It's not where you finish, it's where you start. This is a well-written history of the British skiffle movement -- which, in simplest terms, we might define as "the introduction of the guitar (and ...

from lriley

It's very good--a little better than I thought it would be. I'm kind of a mild fan of Bragg's music and the idea of reading this on the roots of British rock music seemed like it could be good whic...

from froxgirl

This is a vivid history of skiffle, which most of us know from The Beatles origin story (they began as a skiffle band "The Quarrymen"). The focus is on Lonnie Donegan, who kicked it all off with hi...