"Skiffle is a musical genre with influences from jazz, blues, and American folk music, generally performed with a mixture of manufactured and homemade or improvised instruments. ...
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Originating as a form in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, it became extremely popular in the UK in the 1950s, where it was associated with such artists as Lonnie Donegan, The Vipers Skiffle Group, Ken Colyer, and Chas McDevitt. Skiffle also played a major part in beginning the careers of prominent later jazz, pop, blues, folk, and rock musicians, 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 British Invasion of the US popular music scene." - (en.wikipedia.org 02.03.2020)