{"product_id":"9780571327768","title":"Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoots, Radicals \u0026amp; Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is 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","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123891552496,"sku":"9780571327768","price":17.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571327768_p0.jpg?v=1763719429","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571327768","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}