Roots, radicals and rockers

"Against a backdrop of Cold War politics, rock and roll riots and a new 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"--Dust jacket.