skiffle
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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.
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- Music genre.name
- Skiffle
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- Southern United States
- Music genre.regional_scenes
- United Kingdom
- Music genre.other_topics
- Jug band
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- Skiffle
- inception
- 1920-01-01
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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 the United Kingdom in the 1950s, where it was played by such artists as Lonnie Donegan, the Vipers Skiffle Group, Ken Colyer, and Chas McDevitt.
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