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The Politics of Punk - Protest and Revolt from the Streets (Hardcover): David A. Ensminger The Politics of Punk - Protest and Revolt from the Streets (Hardcover)
David A. Ensminger
R1,276 Discovery Miles 12 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Punk rock has long been equated with the ever-shifting concepts of dissent, disruption, and counter-cultural activities. As a result, since its 1970s and 1980s incarnations, when bands in Britain-from The Clash and Sex Pistols to Angelic Upstarts, U.K. Subs, and Crass-offered alternative political convictions and subversive lifestyle choices, the media has often deemed punk a threat. Bands like Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedys, Bad Religion, and Millions of Dead Cops followed suit in America, pushing similar boundaries as the music mutated into a harsher "hardcore" style that branched deep into suburban enclaves. Those antagonisms and ideals were, in turn, translated by another wave of bands-from Fugazi to Anti-Flag-whose commitment to community building was as pronounced as their taut, explosive tunes. In The Politics of Punk, David Ensminger probes the conscience of punk by going beyond the lyrics and slogans of the pithy culture war. He paints a broad, nuanced, and well-documented picture of the ongoing activism and outreach inherent in punk. Creating a people's history of punk's social, cultural, aesthetic, and political features, the book features original interviews with members of Dead Kennedys, Dead Boys, MDC, Channel 3, Snap-Her, Scream, Minutemen, TSOL, the Avengers, Blowdryers, and many more. Ensminger highlights punk money's influence on philanthropy and community involvement and paints a contextualized picture of how punk critiqued dominant culture by channeling support and media coverage for a wide array of humanitarian programs for gays and lesbians, the homeless, the disabled, environmental and health research, and other causes.

Mavericks of Sound - Conversations with Artists Who Shaped Indie and Roots Music (Hardcover): David A. Ensminger Mavericks of Sound - Conversations with Artists Who Shaped Indie and Roots Music (Hardcover)
David A. Ensminger
R1,460 Discovery Miles 14 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Mavericks of Sound: Conversations with the Artists Who Shaped Indie and Roots Music, music scholar David Ensminger offers a collection of vivid and compelling interviews with legendary roots rock and indie artists who bucked mainstream trends and have remained resilient in the face of enormous shifts in the music world. As the success of the concerts at Austin City Limits have revealed, the fan bases and crowds for indie and roots music often blur and overlap. In Mavericks of Sound, Ensminger brings to light the highways and byways trod by these music icons over the course of their careers and the ways in which their music-making has been affected by, and influenced, the burgeoning indie and roots music movements. Ranging from seminal modern singer-songwriters to rockabilly renegades and indie rockers, Mavericks of Sound features a set of broad, penetrating, and insightful conversations imbued with a sense of musical history and heritage. Ensminger captures firsthand accounts from singer songwriters like Texas Country musician Tom Russell and first wave indie artist and folk rocker Peter Case; rockabilly artists Junior Brown and the Reverend Horton Heat; American indie rock icons such as 11th Dream Day's Janet Bean, Pere Ubu's Dave Thomas, Apples in Stereo's Robert Schneider, and Swans members Michael Gira and Jarboe; English and New Zealand figures such as folk legend Richard Thompson, The Clean's David Kilgour and The Waterboys' Mike Scott; and folk, country and rock legends such as Merle Haggard, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Ralph Stanley, Neko Case, and Yo La Tengo. Mavericks of Sound is the perfect work for contemporary indie, roots, Americana, country, and folk music fans who want to understand the unique artistry and unbound passion behind America's musical innovators that readily broke and remolded rules.

Roots Punk - A Visual and Oral History: David A. Ensminger Roots Punk - A Visual and Oral History
David A. Ensminger
R1,113 R946 Discovery Miles 9 460 Save R167 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Punk Women (Paperback): David A. Ensminger Punk Women (Paperback)
David A. Ensminger
R435 R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Save R46 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Roots Punk - A Visual and Oral History: David A. Ensminger Roots Punk - A Visual and Oral History
David A. Ensminger
R3,535 R2,675 Discovery Miles 26 750 Save R860 (24%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Modern Machines - Punk Interviews From the Void (Paperback): David A. Ensminger Modern Machines - Punk Interviews From the Void (Paperback)
David A. Ensminger
R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Enemies in the Backyard - : An Overview of Mid-America World War II Axis POW Camps (Paperback): David A. Ensminger Enemies in the Backyard - : An Overview of Mid-America World War II Axis POW Camps (Paperback)
David A. Ensminger
R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Out of Step - Washington D.C. Punk Interviews (Paperback): David A. Ensminger Out of Step - Washington D.C. Punk Interviews (Paperback)
David A. Ensminger
R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rock'n'roll Decontrol - A Punk PIC and Flyer Collection, Vol. 2 (Paperback): David A. Ensminger Rock'n'roll Decontrol - A Punk PIC and Flyer Collection, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
David A. Ensminger
R332 Discovery Miles 3 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beneath the Shadows of T.S.O.L. (Paperback): Welly Artcore, David A. Ensminger Beneath the Shadows of T.S.O.L. (Paperback)
Welly Artcore, David A. Ensminger
R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Punk Chronicles - Interviews From the Underground (Paperback): David A. Ensminger Punk Chronicles - Interviews From the Underground (Paperback)
David A. Ensminger
R341 Discovery Miles 3 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Short History of MDC's Radical Rock - No War No KKK No Fascist USA (Paperback): David A. Ensminger A Short History of MDC's Radical Rock - No War No KKK No Fascist USA (Paperback)
David A. Ensminger
R334 Discovery Miles 3 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rock'n'Roll Decontrol - A Punk Pic and Flyer Collection (Paperback): David A. Ensminger Rock'n'Roll Decontrol - A Punk Pic and Flyer Collection (Paperback)
David A. Ensminger
R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Subterranean Hum - Poems by David Ensminger and Peter Case (Paperback): David A. Ensminger, Peter Case Subterranean Hum - Poems by David Ensminger and Peter Case (Paperback)
David A. Ensminger, Peter Case
R329 Discovery Miles 3 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Please Bee Nice - My Life Up 'Til Now: A Gary Floyd Memoir (Paperback): David A. Ensminger, Gary Floyd Please Bee Nice - My Life Up 'Til Now: A Gary Floyd Memoir (Paperback)
David A. Ensminger, Gary Floyd
R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Visual Vitriol - The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation (Paperback): David A. Ensminger Visual Vitriol - The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation (Paperback)
David A. Ensminger
R1,401 Discovery Miles 14 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation" is a vibrant, in-depth, and visually appealing history of punk, which reveals punk concert flyers as urban folk art. David Ensminger exposes the movement's deeply participatory street art, including flyers, stencils, and graffiti. This discovery leads him to an examination of the often-overlooked presence of African Americans, Latinos, women, and gays and lesbians who have widely impacted the worldviews and music of this subculture. Then Ensminger, the former editor of fanzine "Left of the Dial," looks at how mainstream and punk media shape the public's outlook on the music's history and significance.

Often derided as litter or a nuisance, punk posters have been called instant art, Xerox art, or DIY street art. For marginalized communities, they carve out spaces for resistance. Made by hand in a vernacular tradition, this art highlights deep-seated tendencies among musicians and fans. Instead of presenting punk as a predominately middle-class, white-male phenomenon, the book describes a convergence culture that mixes people, gender, and sexualities.

This detailed account reveals how members conceptualize their attitudes, express their aesthetics, and talk to each other about complicated issues. Ensminger incorporates an important array of scholarship, ranging from sociology and feminism to musicology and folklore, in an accessible style. Grounded in fieldwork, "Visual Vitriol" includes over a dozen interviews completed over the last several years with some of the most recognized and important members of groups such as Minor Threat, The Minutemen, The Dils, Chelsea, Membranes, 999, Youth Brigade, Black Flag, Pere Ubu, the Descendents, the Buzzcocks, and others.

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