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skiffle orig. U.S.|ˈskɪf(ə)l|
[Origin unknown.]
1. Formerly (U.S.), a style of jazz music popular at rent parties, deriving from blues, ragtime, and folk music, and played on standard and improvised instruments. Later, a form of popular music developed from this in the 1950s (esp. in the United Kingdom), in which the vocal part is supported by a rhythmic accompaniment of guitars or banjos and other more or less conventional instruments; a song written in this style. Cf. washboard.
1926(jazz-music title) Chicago skiffle. 1930Paramount Dealers' List Apr. 2/1, 12886—Home Town Skiffle—Part I. Descriptive Novelty—All Star. 1946in Carey & McCarthy Jazz Directory (1949) 167 Dan Burley and his Skiffle Boys..Skiffle Blues. 1948N.Y. Age 9 Oct. 2/7 Fletcher insisted on looking over the Skiffler's shoulder trying to dig the riffle that make the skiffle. 1957Times 3 May 13/4 Earnest young women will not consent to hear even skiffle, unless they are sure of the reverberation factor of the sitting room. 1959Times 27 June 7/3 Skiffle is a form of Do it Yourself that depends entirely on song and has the supreme merit of persuading its devotees to make music for themselves. 1966P. J. Kavanagh Perfect Stranger xiv. 199 It was the age of skiffle but the ethos had reached Djakarta before the technique. 1973‘J. Marks’ Mick Jagger (1974) 55 Chris Barber and Ken Colyer were the leaders of the skiffle movement. I was with the very first Barber–Colyer Skiffle Band, and when they split up, I left because I didn't actually enjoy skiffle. 1976Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXIV. 603/2 One of the most cheering things that came out of skiffle was the fact that it got children singing, because they sang in groups.
2. U.S. Blacks. = rent party s.v. rent n.1 4 c. (Perhaps the original sense.)
1946[see percolator c]. 1956S. Longstreet Real Jazz Old & New 126 You could always get together and charge a few coins and have a skiffle... The money paid the rent. 1974[see percolator c].
3. a. attrib., as skiffle band, skiffle group, skiffle music.
1957Sing Out! Spring 30 In the first decade of the 20th Century, these New Orleans boys called themselves a ‘Skiffle’ band. 1981Washington Post 8 Jan. dc7 The Sun⁓shine Skiffle Band..has become a favorite at area folk festivals.
1953Melody Maker 10 Oct. 15/1 London Jazz Club..Ken Colyer's Sensational Jazzmen and Skiffle Group. 1957C. Brooke-Rose Languages of Love 215 A skiffle group—consisting of two guitarists, a thimble⁓fingered drummer with a wooden washboard, and a man sweeping a carpet-brush rhythmically over three metal strings drawn taut across a saucepan. 1976Dumfries & Galloway Standard 25 Dec. 7/8 The ‘Vipers’ comprise five well-known artistes in their own right who get together to form a skiffle group.
1948Record Changer June 5/2 The Jazz Room..will feature only the best of jazz and opening night featured..Freddy Moore, Kansas Fields, Dan Burley and his skiffle music. 1958J. Asman in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xiv. 173 The phenomenon of skiffle music, peculiar only to Britain as yet, is well under way. 1978New York 3 Apr. 73/2 Lonnie Donnegan was already a veteran performer in England when, in 1961, his recording of ‘Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?’ introduced skiffle music to America.
b. General attrib. uses.
1946[see sense 1 above]. 1948Record Changer Aug. 5 Dan Burley, the skiffle man, is now a disc jockey. 1953Melody Maker 19 Sept. 15/2 Club Calendar... London Jazz Club... Ken Colyer's Sensational Jazzmen, every Monday, with skiffle party. 1957Universe 30 Aug. 8/3 There were lots of children's playclothes..‘skiffle out⁓fits’ of jersey and jeans. 1965G. Melly Owning Up xi. 135 He [sc. Ken Colyer] called these interludes ‘Skiffle Sessions’, to differentiate them from the more serious activity of playing blues, rags, [etc.].
Hence as v. intr., to play skiffle music; ˈskiffler, one who plays skiffle; a devotee of skiffle; ˈskiffling vbl. n.2
1948N.Y. Age 9 Oct. 3/2 The skiffler's Club is one in which members control the titles of records selected for such programs. 1956Observer 21 Oct. 13/3 The clientele whom the skifflers serve are almost wholly under-thirty, non-drinkers.., mainly middle-class. 1957Auckland (N.Z.) Weekly News 2 Oct. 5 ‘Skiffling’ is the latest craze to come to New Zealand. 1957[see rock and roll v.]. 1959H. Hobson Mission House Murder iii. 21 Anybody with floppy hair, a pair of tight jeans and a cheap guitar can be a skiffler in three easy lessons. 1974Times 9 Jan. 12/7 That was the time when..those who did not rock skiffled away merrily. |