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skiffle
noun- a music genre, a sort of poor-man’s rock ’n’ roll, played on homemade or low budget instruments, popular in the late 1950s UK, 1957
Originates in 1930s and 40s US black society, meaning a house-party at which a subscription was charged to cover costs and raise money to meet the rent. Music was played by groups of amateur musicians. From conventional “scuffle” (an impromptu struggle). - “[A] shuffle group, or something of that sort.” “You mean a skiffle group?” “Something like that.” — Douglas Rutherford, The Creeping Flesh, p. 27, 1963
- The BBC liked skiffle; it was nicely middle class. There were no electric guitars and it didn’t seem dangerous[.] — Simon Napier-Bell, Black Vinyl White Powder, p. 11, 2001
- a very short hairstyle JAMAICA
- West Indians sometimes shaved a pencil thin parting in the cut (they called their crop a “skiffle”), and this caught on with UK skins [skinheads]. — Martin Roach, Dr. Marten’s Air Wair, 1999
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