Skiffle in the U.K.: the indigenization of a musical genre

When Brazil Got the Blues: The Diffusion of Blues in Brazil

“…; blues, country, folk) was easier for British musicians to appropriate because of the English language in comparison to Portuguese-speaking Brazilians (that is, especially if audiences do not understand the lyrics sung in English). Second, British musicians had a sonic and cultural familiarity with American musical traditions that had stemmed from the old folk Irish, Scottish, and English ballads (that in turn, later influenced U.S.based folk and country music), and, from African-American blues tonalities introduced into Britain during and after the Second World War (Marcus, 2020). Brazil had neither of these historical backdrops, with no sonic ties to Anglo-American traditional musical folk styles from the British Isles, and no U.S. radio stations for U.S.-G.I.…”

“…'s (e.g. ; Radio Luxemburg, Radio Normandie) existed in Brazil during WWII like the ones available in Britain which played the music of Muddy Waters, Leadbelly, or Lonnie Johnson, for instance (Marcus, 2020).…”

“…'s posted in Europe during WWII, listened to these radio stations that played U.S. records, and at the same time exposed Europeans to U.S. blues, jazz, folk, and country musical styles (e.g. ; See, Marcus, 2020, and, Poiger, 2000, for the case of U.S.-based culture, jazz, and rock and roll in post-WWII Germany). For example, the British Skiffle craze with Lonnie Donegan at the helm in the mid-1950s, emerged out of this familiarity with blues, folk, and country traditions (musicial traditions which later influenced the Beatles and several other British bands), and thereby; a gamut of bands in the 1960s became known for their iconoclastic musical interpretations and known to U.S. audiences as "British Invasion bands" (e.g.…”

“…For example, the British Skiffle craze with Lonnie Donegan at the helm in the mid-1950s, emerged out of this familiarity with blues, folk, and country traditions (musicial traditions which later influenced the Beatles and several other British bands), and thereby; a gamut of bands in the 1960s became known for their iconoclastic musical interpretations and known to U.S. audiences as "British Invasion bands" (e.g. ; Marcus, 2020;Stratton, 2010). In Britain, the diffusion and popularization of blues evolved and shaped mainstream rock and pop musical spheres during the 1960s and 1970s with the worldwide success of British bands such as the Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Cream, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Kinks, The Animals, The Faces, among others (Marcus, 2020).…”

“…; Marcus, 2020;Stratton, 2010). In Britain, the diffusion and popularization of blues evolved and shaped mainstream rock and pop musical spheres during the 1960s and 1970s with the worldwide success of British bands such as the Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Cream, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Kinks, The Animals, The Faces, among others (Marcus, 2020). 4 This musical engagement in Britain evolved in such a way, largely because the British had already become familiar with "American musical traditions" decades earlier in the 1940s and 1950s -as a result of the processes of diffusion, and later, indigenization.…”