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		Skiffle is a type of folk music with a jazz and blues influence, usually using homemade or improvised instruments such as the washboard, tea chest bass, kazoo, cigar-box fiddle, musical saw, comb and paper, and so forth, as well as more conventional instruments such as acoustic guitar and banjo.
		Skiffle was a novelty or happenstance musical form in the United States, in the 1920s through the 1940s.
		Skiffle was the British equivalent of rockabilly, a new form of music, loud and fast, with a direct communication between the band and the audience.
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	Encyclopedia article: Skiffle music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Skiffle and jug band (A musical group that uses jugs and washboards and kazoos and other improvised instruments) music are closely related.
		Skiffle's roots are also found in the jazz bands of the 1940s (The decade from 1940 to 1949) and 1950s (The decade from 1950 to 1959).
		Skiffle became extremely popular in the UK (A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) in the late 1950s (The decade from 1950 to 1959).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/Sk/Skiffle_music.htm (213 words)

	Skiffle music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Skiffle music is a type of folk music with a jazz and blues influence, usually using homemade or improvised instruments such as the washboard, tea-chest bass, kazoo, cigar-box fiddle, or a comb and paper, and so forth.
		Skiffle's roots are also found in the jazz bands of the 1940s and 1950s.
		Skiffle became extremely popular in the UK in the late 1950s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Skiffle_music (418 words)

	Encyclopedia: Skiffle music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Art rock is a sub-genre of rock music that is characterized by ambitious lyrical themes and melodic or rhythmic experimentation, often extending beyond standard pop song forms and toward influences in jazz, classical, or the avant-garde.
		Cello rock is a genre of music characterized by the use of cellos and other stringed instruments such as violin and viola to create a sound, beat, and texture similar to that of familiar rock music, but distinctly reshaped by the unique timbres and more traditional genres of the cello...
		Psychedelic music is a musical genre inspired by or attempting to replicate the mind-altering experience of drugs such as cannabis, psilocybin, mescaline, and especially LSD.
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	Glossary: Skiffle \| Sweetwater.com
		Having its origins in New Orleans in the early 1920s, skiffle is a form of American folk music infused with jazz and blues influences.
		Skiffle is performed with a combination of conventional instruments such as acoustic guitar and banjo, along with homemade instruments modeled after traditional African instruments including washboard, tea chest bass, kazoo, jug, cigar-box fiddle, comb and paper, etc. The term skiffle was also used to describe jug-band music.
		In the 1950s and 60s, skiffle became the foundation of what was to become the music explosion known as the British Invasion (1964-66).
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	OHEK - MUSIC - SOME SKIFFLE HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Skiffle's time in the limelight was short, and its successful exponents could be counted on the fingers of one hand, but never in the history of British music have so many been influenced by so few.
		Whether skiffle or skuffle, the word has been used for a century for the good-humoured music played by those too poor to buy instruments and who have used instead washtubs, jugs, washboards etc and other found instruments along with any horns, reeds, or strings that were handy.
		Skiffle clubs opened and closed, creating a popular coffee-bar mentality, and youngsters like John Lennon and Paul McCartney, thrilled to the marrow by singers like Presley and Chuck Berry, were nevertheless heavily influenced by skiffle.
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		Their sound was skiffle, a highly animated, heavily rhythmic variant on American folk and country music, although even at that early date, Lennon tried to stick as many rock 'n roll tunes as he could into their repertory.
		Its success was a nail in the coffin of skiffle music as a national phenomenon, although it was still possible for groups that aspired to nothing more to play local youth clubs for pocket money.
		It was an opportunity to hear the kind of music that the Beatles started with, however, and a rare chance to hear authentic skiffle music outside of England, and at anytime after the 1950's.
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	Lonnie Donegan Tributes
		As the leader of the skiffle craze in the late 1950s, he inspired the formation of literally thousands of do-it-yourself bands across the country, and was directly responsible for the 1960s pop explosion that was to severely damage his own career.
		Skiffle, with its washboards and tea-chest bass, was a bridge between traditional jazz and rock'n'roll.
		Skiffle music, which Donegan introduced to Britain in the 1950s, was a mixture of styles that traced its roots to 1920s America, blending jug band, acoustic, folk, blues, and country and western styles.
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	Read about Skiffle music at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Skiffle music and learn about Skiffle music here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Skiffle music is a type of folk music with a
		Skiffle's roots are also found in the jazz bands of the 1940s and
		Barber-Colyer Skiffle Band but claims he didn't really like skiffle.
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	Skiffle Downloads - Download Skiffle Music - Download Skiffle MP3s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Although the term Skiffle was originally used in the U.S. in the 1930s to describe mixtures of blues, boogie woogie, and other popular fl music, the skiffle revival of the...
		What's more, his music, like that of Presley and Haley, was vital to the early musical careers and future histories of the Beatles, the Stones, and hundreds of other groups.
		The name "skiffle" was hung on this music as a way of referring to it on the group's posters.
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		A sanitized, diluted version of American folk, jazz, and blues, skiffle was being performed by many European musicians before it gave way to the budding beginnings of rock and roll.
		Skiffle is to blues and real folk as boy-band pop is to Gershwin and Motown; skiffle is friendly and safe, but dry, and lacking in substance.
		The Skiffle Sessions distorts the raw, tangible characteristics of the bedrock of pop and rock music.
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	Skiffle music - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Skiffle music is a type of folk music with a jazz and blues influence, usually using homemade or improvised instruments such as the washboard, tea-chest bass, kazoo, cigar-box fiddle, or a comb and paper, and so forth.
		Skiffle's roots are also found in the jazz bands of the 1940s and 1950s.
		Skiffle became extremely popular in the UK in the late 1950s.
	www.music.us /education/S/Skiffle-music-2.htm (533 words)

	Skiffle Bunch Steelband (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Skiffle Bunch did not compete in the Ensemble category, the finals for which were held at The Grand Stand, Queens Park Savannah, Port of Spain on Friday October 20th 2000.
		Skiffle Bunch chose Ken Professor Philmore's Pan by Storm, a calypso which was arranged for the band by Len Boogsie Sharpe.
		Skiffle Bunch were the first steelband to register a hat-trick in local competition by being the biannual Steelbands Music Festival Winners for 1984, 1986 and 1988.
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	Skiffle Bands and Jug Bands in Scotland
		Skiffle music is similar and is the British adaptation of Jug Band music.
		Their music is based on the songs of the original Jug bands of the 1920's, such as Gus Cannons Jug Stompers and the Memphis Jug Band.
		The music is intended to be entertaining and fun - but also faithful to the tradition of the many great artists who originally performed this type of music.
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	Glossary: skiffle
		Skiffle held an additional appeal for Van, because Donegan was popularizing the strange music that his father had been listening to for many years.
		Lonnie Donegan was a very influential member of the pop music scene in the United Kingdom in the 50's and 60's, and is best known as the individual who launched the skiffle movement.
		Lonnie Donegan's skiffle music was very influential on younger musicians who would become prominent in the music world in the years to come.
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	Skiffle Music from The Ugly Dog Skiffle Combo
		Skiffle, Comedy, Folk and Rock 'n' Roll with their influences stretching from Lonnie Donnegan and Woody Guthrie through to the Beatles.
		The Mosam Skiffle Train" consists of five musicians who practically all were caught up in the skiffle rage of the fifties of the last century and now on the edge of the new millennium have again taken up their old passion.
		Skiffle and relatives handmade music is the topic.
	www.skiffledog.co.uk /_uglydog/static/skiffle_links.asp (990 words)

	BRITPOP
		He was a predecessor of other comedians and groups (like the Goons) who turned to music to further their popularity; remarkably (or perhaps not so), he was one of several singers to reach the charts ahead of established balladeers like Dickie Valentine of the early fifties.
		After guesting in a few skiffle groups, Webb formed The Drifters (no relation to the American group!) and made an appearance at the famed London coffee bar, 2 I's (where Tommy Steele is also alleged to have been born).
		Skiffle was dying out anyway, even for Donegan, and Marvin, Meehan and Harris found their way into The Drifters and thence The Shadows, while Whyton concentrated on country/folk music, hosting children's TV in England.
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	Skiffle music - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Skiffle music - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Skiffler Lonnie Donegan had major international success with the Leadbelly song, "Rock Island Line" and the novelty song "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's [sic] Flavour on the Bedpost Over Night?" Other well-known British skiffle groups include The Gin Mill Skiffle Group, and The Quarry Men, who later became the rock band The Beatles.
		Skiffle music, See also, External links, American styles of music, American folk music and British styles of music.
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		Donegan's enthusiastic espousal of skiffle, blues, gospel and American folk music was instrumental in igniting the 1960s British blues revival.
		During the early 1950s skiffle, with its guitar-driven rhythm, tea-chest basses and washboard percussion, was hugely popular and Lonnie Donegan was its biggest star, notching-up 28 top-30 hits.
		The Beatles began their transformation of popular music in the early 1960s but, as some of his fans became stars in their own right, Lonnie Donegan's reputation as a musical innovator soared.
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	OHEK - MUSIC - ABOUT SKIFFLE & JUGBAND MUSIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The term "SKIFFLE" has a variety of meanings but always refers to informal, good time music, usually using home-made or improvised instruments such as the washboard, wash-tub or tea-chest bass, kazoo, jug, cigar-box fiddle, comb and paper etc.
		Although they will probably have never heard of Leadbelly or Woody Guthrie, for a lot of British people over a certain age this music is part of their pop music nostalgia.
		The word "SKIFFLE" was probably first used by pianist Hersel Thomas (who died in 1926) to describe the music played at a house rent party (also called "skuffle" music).
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	The Vipers Skiffle Group - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Whyton had started in music on the piano, and later gravitated toward the trombone, but finally settled on the guitar, on which he became very proficient.
		Whyton and Booker, however, were among the most accomplished musicians on the skiffle scene, and their treatment of traditional American material is intense and often spellbinding.
		The Vipers' music is a treat, not just for fans of early English rock 'n roll, but also to fans of country, folk, and blues.
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	Jug Bands and Skiffle Music
		Skiffle music is similar to jug band music.
		They can still be found in old-fashioned hardware stores and through music catalogs that specialize in folk instruments.
		Kazoos, harmonicas, musical spoons (tape two spoons back to back and slap them on your leg), window screens, and pots and pans are all possibilities.
	www.sbgmusic.com /html/teacher/reference/instruments/jugbands.html (650 words)

	Paul, george, john, and ringo: the beatles
		Paul was influenced heavily by skiffle music, as well as the American rock and rollers named Elvis Presley and Little Richard.
		George was influenced by Skiffle Music too, and he and his brother Peter formed their own Skiffle band.
		Richard was influenced by the popular Skiffle Music, and he started his own group before he finally joined The Raving Texans.
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	Skiffle books and links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Skiffle was actually a form of pop music in England in the 1950's.
		It was the beginning of pop music and influential on all forms of music that followed.
		On the surface this book may not seem to have anything to do with skiffle or other down home music but it is a prime example of a man who took traditional musical forms and put his own stamp on them and spent his whole life sharing this music with the world.
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	River Bottom Boogie, Music with a Skiffle Beat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		For a number of years now we have been playing and encouraging others to play music in the simple rhythmic style called skiffle.
		There are a lot of songs that are associated with skiffle, jug band, and down home music like we play, but you do not have to limit yourself to those songs.
		We will give you our perspective on skiffle music as well as some cool links to those other pages.
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	Popular Culture in the 1960
		The word ‘skiffle’ was said to have been used first by a pianist, Hersel Thomas who used this word to describe the music played at a house rent party.
		British pop music was different to that of American Pop music, although such artists imitated influences and sounds as Cliff Richard.
		Skiffle was easy to play and many youngsters and unskilled musicians took skiffle up as they saw it as a way to get the spotlight on them and become famous.
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