{"product_id":"roots-punk-a-visual-and-oral-history-9781496848420","title":"Roots Punk: A Visual and Oral History","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David A. Ensminger\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Genres \u0026amp; Styles - Punk\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.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46445236519063,"sku":"9781496848420","price":3487.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781496848420.webp?v=1769133358","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/roots-punk-a-visual-and-oral-history-9781496848420","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}