Punk rock evokes dissent and disruption, abrasive and anarchic
musicality, and a host of countercultural aesthetics. Featuring
original interviews and over one hundred images, Roots Punk: A
Visual and Oral History by 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. 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. Roots Punk 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.
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.
General
| Imprint: |
University Press Of Mississippi
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
American Made Music Series |
| Release date: |
November 2023 |
| Authors: |
David A. Ensminger
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| Dimensions: |
279 x 216mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
277 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4968-4842-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-4968-4842-X |
| Barcode: |
9781496848420 |
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