What (who) is skiffle - definition

GENRE OF FOLK MUSIC WITH JAZZ, BLUES, FOLK, AND ROOTS INFLUENCES

Skiffle Music; Skiffle bands; Skiffle era; Skiffle music; Skiffle band; Skiffle group; Skiffle craze; 1950s skiffle

skiffle

¦ noun

1. Brit. a kind of folk music popular in the 1950s, often incorporating improvised instruments such as washboards.

2. US a style of 1920s and 1930s jazz using both improvised and conventional instruments.

Origin

1920s: perh. imitative.

skiffle

An argument, a row, a fight.
They had another skiffle today and now they aren't friends. Who would be after a fight?

skiffle

Skiffle is a type of music, popular in the 1950s, played by a small group using household objects as well as guitars and drums.

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Wikipedia

Skiffle

Skiffle is a genre of folk music with influences from American folk music, blues, country, bluegrass, and jazz, generally performed with a mixture of manufactured and homemade or improvised instruments. Originating as a form in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, it became extremely popular in United Kingdom in the 1950s, where it was played by such artists as Lonnie Donegan, The Vipers Skiffle Group, Ken Colyer, and Chas McDevitt. Skiffle was a major part of the early careers of some musicians who later became prominent jazz, pop, blues, folk, and rock performers, The Beatles and Rory Gallagher amongst them. It has been seen as a critical stepping stone to the second British folk revival, the British blues boom, and the British Invasion of American popular music.

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Examples of use of skiffle

1. It was rickety, semi–musical and open to anyone: it related to punk in the way skiffle had to rock‘n‘roll.

2. Baldry started on the London folk and skiffle scene in the late 1'50s as a member of the Thameside Four, while working as a commercial artist.

3. By 1'60 he had turned professional to tour Denmark with the Bob Cort Skiffle, but folk soon gave way to the blues as his musical focus.

4. Peter Hodgson, 40, a taxi driver from Liverpool, was invited to Peasmarsh in 1''5 after discovering an old recording of Paul and John Lennon performing as The Quarrymen – the skiffle band which preceded The Beatles – in his grandmother‘s attic.

5. She and her common–law husband were always mastering the latest dance craze and, as skiffle took hold in the mid–Fifties, John played the new songs on an improvised teachest bass while his mother strummed the family washboard with her silver darning thimbles.