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Billy Bragg

Autor(a) de The Progressive Patriot

58+ Works 722 Membros 26 Críticas 2 Favorited

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Obras por Billy Bragg

The Progressive Patriot (2006) 184 exemplares
Three Dimensions of Freedom (2019) 72 exemplares
Mermaid Avenue (1998) 54 exemplares
Back to Basics (1987) 25 exemplares
A Lover Sings: Selected Lyrics (2015) 22 exemplares
Don't Try This at Home (1991) 22 exemplares
Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (2000) 20 exemplares
Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy (2013) 14 exemplares
William Bloke (1996) 14 exemplares
Billy Bragg: Midnights in Moscow (1989) 13 exemplares
Workers Playtime (2013) 11 exemplares
Mr. Love & Justice [Music] (2008) 10 exemplares
Must I Paint You a Picture (2003) 10 exemplares
The Internationale (2006) 9 exemplares
Tooth & Nail (2013) 9 exemplares
Brewing Up With Billy Bragg (2013) 7 exemplares
Bloke on Bloke (1997) 4 exemplares
England, Half English (2006) 4 exemplares
The Peel Session Album (1991) 4 exemplares
Victim of geography (1992) 4 exemplares
Bridges Not Walls (2014) 3 exemplares
Fight Songs 3 exemplares
Levi Stubbs' Tears 2 exemplares
Billy Bragg: Audible Sessions: FREE Exclusive Interview (2019) — Narrador — 2 exemplares
Tooth & Nail (Deluxe) 2 exemplares
Peel Sessions (1992) 1 exemplar
Boy Done Good 1 exemplar
Upfield (1996) 1 exemplar
St Monday 1 exemplar
Volume 2 (2013) 1 exemplar
Sexuality 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent (1909) — Contribuidor, algumas edições132 exemplares
Punk Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories Inspired by Punk (2009) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
10,000 Maniacs: Time Capsule (2004) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
The Smiths Is Dead (1996) — Artist — 1 exemplar

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Back in the early 2000s when working on the Before They Were Beatles book I did research into the roots of skiffle and its impact on the British music scene in the 1950s, but there wasn’t much around. I wish I’d had this volume, but as Bragg says skiffle had, unfairly, pretty much written out of popular rock histories. That was an oversight he set out to correct here - and he succeeded.

The three years of the British skiffle craze was in many ways an antecedent of the punk explosion of the 70s with its boundary breaking imperative to just get out there and make music.

Bragg’s book examines it all in great detail, and for some that may be too much detail as there is a long list of names* and references that would probably be unfamiliar to the casual reader not already versed in the foundations of the British music scene. It also has a London bias (partially understandable as that’s where skiffle originated and remained its epicenter) only really spelling out its broader influences in the last few chapters. An influence that informed almost every British pop and rock act of the 60s and 70s.

If you want to know the true roots of modern British rock than this is a great starting point.

(* One name that took me by surprise was that of Michael Moorcock - apparently the renowned SF writer produced his own skiffle fanzine as a teenager.)
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gothamajp | 17 outras críticas | Jan 21, 2022 |
Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing.
I received this book as part of the Early Reviewers program at LibraryThing.

I enjoyed this book more than most i've read in the past few years. Bragg has a very accessible style as he goes through the history of Skiffle music in the UK. From it's beginnings in American Blues and Folk music as filtered through tradition Jazz in England, Skiffle went on to shake a nation and spawn what we know as early Rock 'n' Roll, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Van Morrison and all the others.

Bragg's work is filled with very interesting, interrelated information and name calls many, many obscure and famous bands. Part of the fun of reading this was following along with my Amazon Prime music an listening to all this great music I never knew existed.

If you have any interest in the history of music, you must must must get a copy of this book. It's pretty awesome!! I don't give five stars often; this one deserves it.
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DuffDaddy | 17 outras críticas | Nov 4, 2020 |
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Excellent, comprehensive, exhaustive without being exhausting. A seminal period in the history of British popular music dusted off and made to shine by Billy Bragg's great book.
 
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CSRodgers | 17 outras críticas | Jul 24, 2020 |
Un ensayo que nos ayuda a reformular la idea básica de libertad en medio de la telaraña de la globalización y las fake news.

En esta época convulsa y compleja, en la que el capitalismo financiero, armado de fake news, autoritarismo y neoliberalismo, amenaza con invadir las parcelas más íntimas del ciudadano y redefinir nuestra vida, Billy Bragg señala los tres pilares sobre los que debería edificarse la libertad para que esta no sea una mera cáscara vacía: la franqueza, la igualdad y la responsabilidad. Para protegernos de la irrupción de la tiranía, hemos de ir más allá de una idea unidimensional de lo que significa la libertad, capaz de restaurar el poder individual engendrado por sus tres dimensiones.… (mais)
 
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Obras
58
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Membros
722
Popularidade
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Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
26
ISBN
29
Línguas
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