ROOTS RADICALS AND ROCKERS

Emerging 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 in the dreary post-war years. Against a backdrop of Cold War politics, rock and roll riots and a newly assertive working-class youth, Billy Bragg charts the history, impact and legacy of a movement that sparked a revolution and shaped pop culture as we have come to know it.