Roots Punk: A Visual and Oral History Ensminger David A.
Roots Punk: A Visual and Oral History Ensminger David A. Punk rock evokes dissent and disruption, abrasive and anarchic musicality, and a host of countercultural aesthetics. Ensminger focuses on how…
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Roots Punk: A Visual and Oral History Ensminger David A.
Punk rock evokes dissent and disruption, abrasive and anarchic musicality, and a host of countercultural aesthetics. 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. Featuring original interviews and over one hundred images, Roots Punk: A Visual and Oral History by longtime music journalist and author David A.
He contextualizes, clarifies, maps, and probes roots punk's hybrid nature as well as its diverse, queer-inclusive, and multicultural strains. 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. By painting a broad, nuanced, and well-documented