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Archive: September 2017 (10 Posts)

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A Bonus Story: Billy Bragg and the Healing Power of Folksong

Posted by: Stephen Winick

In late July, the American Folklife center was privileged to host a book talk by Billy Bragg, who spoke about his book, Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World.  A new blog post over on the Library of Congress blog tells the story of how we came to get the well known English singer/ …