# Roots, Radicals and Rockers

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- Authors: [Billy Bragg](https://www.bookquiver.com/billy-bragg)
- Publisher: Faber AND Faber
- ISBN: 978-05-7132-775-1
- Pages: 448
- Published: 2018-04-05
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A Rough Trade, Mojo and FT Book of the YearSHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZEEmerging 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, Billy Bragg charts – for the first time in depth – the history, impact and legacy of a movement that sparked a revolution and shaped pop culture as we have come to know it.