(Skiffle was slang for rent party (sometimes called a house party) a social occasion where tenants hire a musician or band to play and pass the hat to raise money to pay their rent.)
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Skiffle started in the 1920s Chicargo, as a obscure combination of blues, jazz and folk music that had heavy roots in New Orlines jazz music. The music was formed by jug bands that would play improvised blues and jazz songs traveling across the American south. In the early 20th century though they were not called skiffle bands.
first being recorded as skiffle in 1925, the term skiffle was used in the name of Jimmy O'Bryant and his Chicago Skifflers.
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