基本説明
「エレキギターを抱えたアクティビスト」あるいは「ひとりクラッシュ」などとも呼ばれているイギリスの歌手・活動家ビリー・ブラッグの初めての著作は一見政治とは関係ない音楽本です。
スキッフルとはアメリカ発祥ですが1960年代にイギリスで大流行した音楽形式で、素人でもまず音楽を楽しみたい若者が楽器を始める大きなきっかけとなりました。
主にギターが主役で、なんとミック・ジャガーもポール・マッカートニーもジミー・ペイジもその洗礼を受けたとのこと。著者が著者だけにスキッフルとパンクのエモーショナルな関係についても持論を繰り広げています。(2017/07/13)
Full Description
Emerging from the jazz clubs of the early '50s, 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. These were Britain's first teenagers, looking for a music of their own in a culture dominated by crooners and mediated by a stuffy BBC. Sales of guitars rocketed from 5,000 to 250,000 a year, and - as with the punk rock that would flourish two decades later - all you needed to know were three chords to form your own group, with your mates accompanying on tea-chest bass and washboard.
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 Britain's original pop movement. It's a story of jazz pilgrims and blues blowers, Teddy Boys and beatnik girls, coffee-bar bohemians and refugees from the McCarthyite witch-hunts, who between them sparked a revolution that shaped pop culture as we have come to know it.
