{"product_id":"roots-punk-a-visual-and-oral-history-paperback","title":"Roots Punk: A Visual and Oral History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid A. Ensminger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePunk rock evokes dissent and disruption, abrasive and anarchic musicality, and a host of countercultural aesthetics. Featuring original interviews and over one hundred images, \u003ci\u003eRoots Punk: A Visual and Oral History \u003c\/i\u003eby longtime music journalist and author David A. Ensminger focuses on how punk merged with roots music to create a rich style that incorporated honky-tonk, rockabilly, doo-wop, reggae, ska, jazz, folk, blues, and labor ballads. This engagement transformed the notion of punk to include a wide array of vintage source material that seems more aligned with bolo ties and Stetsons than Doc Martens and safety pins. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ensminger explores the music's aesthetics, traits, and themes. He contextualizes, clarifies, maps, and probes roots punk's hybrid nature as well as its diverse, queer-inclusive, and multicultural strains. By painting a broad, nuanced, and well-documented picture of the genre from its earliest incarnation, he forms a kind of people's history of the movement. \u003ci\u003eRoots Punk\u003c\/i\u003e features original interviews with members of Minutemen, MDC, the Dicks, the Plimsouls, Tex and the Horseheads, Dils\/Rank and File, X, the Flesh Eaters, Beatnigs, Alejandro Escovedo, Robert \"El Vez\" Lopez, Blasters, and more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Whether covering sarcastic novelty forms or sincere embraces, Ensminger reveals and revels in a punk tradition lined with blues records, acoustic ballads, country, and hillbilly romp. In a time of growing conformity, replication, and commercialization, roots punk (sometimes dubbed cow-punk) offers a tantalizing revitalization and reimagination of the American songbook.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid A. Ensminger\u003c\/b\u003e is a college instructor of English, humanities, and folklore in Texas; a drummer with decades behind the kit; and an author of several books covering both American roots music and punk rock history, including \u003ci\u003eVisual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation\u003c\/i\u003e, published by University Press of Mississippi. He is also an ongoing contributor to magazines in America and Europe, such as \u003ci\u003eRazorcake\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMaximum Rocknroll\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTrust\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eZap. \u003c\/i\u003eAnd, he has been interviewed by \u003ci\u003eThe Economist \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 206\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 11 x 8.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 30, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51776650608928,"sku":"9781496848420","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/096ae638c4d672ff0672e0c48cb00d98.webp?v=1780482787","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/roots-punk-a-visual-and-oral-history-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}