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Book, 2017
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Skiffle — a “do-it-yourself” music craze with American jazz, blues, folk, and roots influences — is a story of jazz pilgrims and coffee-bar bohemians, Teddy Boys and beatnik girls. Skiffle is reason 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. Like punk rock that would flourish two decades later, skiffle was home grown: 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. This meticulously researched account shows how Skiffle sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come to know it.
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